rart.2.Chap.;. eAjfiiC!td (onftiences• .Ior bee iswont to re()ompence aboundantly, at lafi, liis longer tarrying with exce!fe of joy, and over'" flowing expre11ions ofhis love. Thirdly, we mufl: ever remember: that all the while He exercife.th us 3 · His feafan ts !lot ytt come. with :J'aiting, that feafon is yet to come, which in His merciful! wifedome, He holds the meetefi to magnifie the glory ofHis mert:y mofi; and wifelidl: · · · to advance our.fpirituall good. Fourthly, And tbat 4 !hatifhe never :tt· which is bdt ofall, Ifthetrue Convert refiina His tatne cemt~rt, yet·he S 1 h. L d .r. d ' · P f ihlll not nufie of h<aw weary . ou e.upont e or le_; m, an Prom11CS o ven For a tr 1 h ' w life thould bee taken away., · before hee .attaine blcdfoulc: u y um his delired comfort; he lliall be certainely faved~ and undoubtedl.y crowned with ·everlafring bleffi:dnefk. For, lJiej[ed are all they that 'R'ait fir Him, J(a;3o.18. A man is faved by Beleeving, and not by toy andpeac~ in beleeving: Salvation is :m infeperable . companion of Faith: But ioyand peace accompany it, as aieperable accident~ As that which may be removed from it; yea,there is caufe why it fhould · be remooved. The light would never be fo accephble,.were it not for tf1at ufuall entercourfe of darkneffe,&c. · Take here notice upon this occalion; that as a tru.:. Draw(sfrom Chri~ ly humbled Soule receiving:Chrifr,in the fenfe I·have · faid; hath power given Him thereby to become the Son ofGod;fo he dotli draw alfo from that glorious objed: ofFaith,fo full of all amiablene!fe, excellency, and fweetneffe" , I. Sometimes,by the mercy ofGod, a very fenli- r l!ithrr :ua unfpeakable, fiirri~1g and rapi{hing joy unfJeakgh!e, ~nd foil of ble tho~g,h !horqoy• • ~lory :Which,though it be many times very fuort,yet ot· 1s unutterably fweet. -2. Ifnot fo,yet an habituall calmendfe of confci- 2.. An h.abitualf quicc "ence,ifi may fo call it. VVhich thouah we doe not· of confcte~~ce. · m,a~ke. it fo much or magnifie Gods n~rcy for it, as we ought,yet it makes us diffi:r as f.tr by a comforta• ble freed~m fro~l many flavilh,guilty twitches,& an 9 g univerfaU : ' ·"
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