--- --------·- -- - ·-- ------~ , horrour almo!t a whole yeare. Bet by Gods good providence, which fweetly and wifely ordereth all things, liH:ening 011 a time, though very unwillingly at firft, to her husband reading amongO: other places, that, !Jtt.)7.I).Th,ufoith th~ high andZ1Jff.JOnethat iniJaGiwiJ eternity, whofe name is holy; l dwt/1 in the high and h!J!y pl11cc : with him al(o thllt is of acontrite and hNmble jpirit, t D revive the JPirit of the humble, And to revive the hotrt cf the ccntrite ones. For I will not contend for ever, neither wilt I bee alwaiu wroth : for the Jjirit . /ho11ld faile kefore mee, and the foHles which I have n~atle: I f~y, lifiening to thefe wor~s, the Holy Ghofi drawing her l::eart, iliee begun to reafon thttS with her felfe ~,(j,d doth here promife to revive ttnti comfort rhe he~~rt of the contrite, and'[p~rit Of the hNmble: and that hee will n1t contend f~r ever, neither 6ee ~t!w.tjriwroth. But I hne "very contrite heart, anda (pirithHm- !Jiea even 11nto the dNfl ; out Bf the ack.._no'Widgnnmt~ IUiti flt~fo ~r Fn7 pnnu, ana divi11e Vt11i,t'll'11tt ll.flliHjl theM. Therefore pmtdventNrt, God will 'V9Hrhfofe 19 revive and comfort "'1 ht~trt 11nJ JPirit ; at~d not co?Jt,nd 'With met for ever,nor bee 'Wroth ~tgAiwft mte jliiJ,efrt. Hereupon by little and little, there flowed by Cods bleffin~:t into her darke and heavl heart, abun- ,danceef life, lightfomencflC, (pirit~ll firength, and afitrar:1te. In which iliee continued with. confiancy and comfort, many ayeare after; crowned thck hap- . ·py dayes, and a bleffed old age, with·a.gloti(lus and _triumphant· death, and went to heaven in the yC<tre 159~. What heart now, but Hers that, felt it, ,can poffibly conceive the depth of that txtraordinary., un-utterable refrdhing; whica fprung out of that prqmife, upon her forlorne and fearcfull foule,; ort~ excene of that ,fove, which thee bore .ever ana: to thok bl~d lines ; to the mercy that made them, · and
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