206 Inflruflions for a right comfortint ' Sett.-:: ________.!__ confllted with, and asked :Diddeft thou ever recdve hurt by reading Gods bleaed Booke, by fearching fweetlyinto the great myfrerie ofChrifr . crucified~ by meditation upon heavenly things?Did the f1cred fence ofthofe divineOrac/es diffettle thy noble faculties, or ever make fad thy.heart? &c. Oh !.with what infinite indignatiOn,would it flie in the face cffuch curfed CaviUers,and wram•lc:rsagainfr the truth! s.Convinced· Is it poffiblc fur th: fole, and foveraigne A11tidote 1 ~ Jirom the quality feot from heaven by God himfelfe againfr the fring of Gods w9rd•.· and ven_ome ofall heart. griefe, and horrour; the faered Sunne·offaving truth, .which i.'S onely able to ennoble and glorifie our underfl:anQings with wifedome ft·om the .breafl: ofthe everlafiing counfell of Jefm (hri(f, fhould become the caufe ofdifcomfort, and diffettlement of the foule?No, no: Therds fuch a quiCkening, healing, and mighty efficacy and vigour tbed into it from the Father of lights, and lhining in it ftom tbe face of Chrifi, that by the helpe ofthe bldl'::d Spirit, it can turne darkeneffe into light,death into life,hell into heaven, the deep=fl horrour, into .height of joy. Tell me ofady miferieupon the qody, foule, outward•G:ate, or good name; any calamitie felt or feared in this life, or _the life to come; and ifthou \Vllt be converted and counfelled, I can fi:nd thee to fome, both Promife, and Precedent in this bool< ofGod, whi eh may upen good ground fill thine heart as fi1ll with found comfort, as the Sutlne is ef Light, and the Sea of Waters. Nay, give mee a wounded fpirit .witl-1 all it's inexplicable terrours, and·bitterne!fe; which is the greatefi mW:ry, and extremefl: afflichon, of which an underfhnding Soule is capable· in this life. ' And let firfr all the Phyfitians in the world, even the 'R..!J(e-k...,nights, as they call themfelves,lay all their heal1s,skill, and experience tog~ther,for the cure; Let all the highe(l: Monarchs upon earth fhine upon it .wi~h their Imp:tiall favours for cQmfort; Let the depth of all humane wifedome, and the
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