biflrHCliotti,f()f' ~rig/;:, CC.t;Jjorting Sc.a. ~· ------------------------------- · ~fier Peacockt. 4~ Ordinat~ly . his wortdrrft~-M wo't.k.._af bifo~e.fhe fon~es ef melt: Por h~ bath ( ati4ied my s~lto, and-foiled my. hangtj So'1tle with goodnej[e. · · , . · Mafl:er Peacock! in the height ofHis dreacfft.,li De• fertion, told thole about him, that bee ctJn verft with. Hell-hounds ; Thot the Lordhad c~rfed him; That hce had no grace; That it w.u againft thr courfe of Gods pro.., ceeding, to fa:ve him, &c. But when that horrible tempefr of fpirituall terrours wa-shappily d-ifperfl: ; and the light-of Gods comfortable countenance begun to · thine again upon His moll: heavie.and aftli.:l:ed fpirit; He cl if-avowed all inconjiderate JPeee·hn, as bee called them, in his temptation, and did humbly and heartily aske mercy ofGod for them al; And did thus triumph, What fooul~· J eA:toll the magnificence of God, which is un(j)ed.~l'l!il'e, and ?hore th'a:n anJ heart ea~. conceive? Nay ratfier let m with humk/t: reverence ack..,nowldge Hid· great mercy. What rz.reat caufe have I to magnifte' the great goodneffe of God, that hath-humblr:d, N "'J ra~ th~r exalted fuch a wtetchedmifcrea'l1t, • pf fo bafe con~ diti.on' to an eftf;tte fo glotiotu a!ll. ft~etely · ! The Lwd htttb honour:ed riJe with hu goodotef{e: I am (ure, he hath pro7:/ided a-glort'ottJ· kfngdome for mce : The joy which I foe!e ifi my heart is unt'fedible. 4. S0tne of GodslWott'hiefl: Chan;tpions, and moll: zealous fervantst dM ntlt ahfwer the unreproveable fantlity .of their life, arid unfpotted current of their former converfatioB, with thof~ proportionable extraordinary comforts, & glorious Paffi1ges upC?n their . b'eds ofde~th, which in ordine}ry congruity might be ex-:petl:ed., as a ccmvenieh~ condufion to th.e rare and , remarkable Chrifriati carriages of fuch blelfed Saints. So bottomlefi-: alid ·in!~.nitely unfathomable by the utmort of all created · miderfl:andiilg~ are the ,depths of · (§;ods mdft: holy waydjand HH infcrutable Counfds; quite· contr~ry many: time~ to th~ probable conclu_fi- ~ns of mans beft \\nfedvme. BUt every on~ of H1sh, fit :
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