' comfortable walking with God. 010211 327 did to D aniel,0 greatly beloved. And why fhouldany Popifh caviller contracliel this fith euen Befiarrnine himfelfe fpeakes proportionably in another cafe ? Vpon apaffage in eAuflin, acknowledging the interior efficacy of Gods Spirit, gluing teftimony toour hearts concerning the truthofthatwhich is contained in the Scriptures, faith b be ; This light offaith is a certaine teJlimony of God , by which it isfilid to thefecret co.! gitationsofostr hearts, That is true , thous needell not to doubt thereof. Here is an immediate teftimony of the Spirit gran- ted for the confirmation of the truthof the Word ; why t maynot the like bee expeaecl for an affurance oftheworke ofthe Word ? Mighty and remarkeable was the worke of the Spirit this way upon the heart of that Noble Martyr, Robert glover, upon the firft fight and reprefentation of the Stake ( fo fweetly feafonable is God in all his re frefhinsg.) For two or three dayes beforehis death , he was full heavily oppreffed with the fpirituall miferies of a deadheart, and fpirituall defertion. Inwhich time no doubt bee cried migh- tily unto God, and often reflected the eye of his renewed confcience upon a truly beleevipg, penitent, bumble, holy and heavenly heart; refolued to facrifice its warmth blood in the tnercileffe fire, for the teftimony of lefus ; and yet no comfort would ccme.But in the very nickeand needfinll time, as youmay fee in theStory, the bleffed Spirit did filddenly thine into his darke and defolate foule , with the glorious beamesofhis owne immediate comfort,and fo fenfibly filled it with Inch overflowing Riuers offpirituall joyes, that no doubt they mightily abated and quenched the ragefull fury of thofe Popifh flames, wherein he fweetly fell afleepe. It was a fpeciall and immediate fpringing of the holy Ghoft in his heart, whichmadeMailer Peacocke, after many dayes ofex- treme fl horror, profeff6, that The boy which hefelt inht con. fcience, was incredible. Wee feele andacknowledgeby daily experience,that Satan cloth immediately injed; and (hall not 'thebided Spirit, after his holy and heaverily manner, imme- b Hoc igicur eft wren fidei, audi- ores,teflimontum quoddarn Del , quo intus in do- rnicilio cordis did ur nobis; era whit halite!. In Canc. Delon:a f:- del. Seita'&Litt* gaident.J diately alto fogged fometimes ? Neither is this to bee reputed anextraordinary rettelati- Y 3 on,
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