---'"-'---'-..:.....O...:.....--'---"""-·----------------------------- )!O lfl )O.IO, ' ' InftruCiion! for A rif,ht comforting yet w;tt I truft in Him : But wee had neither heard of, or admired the one or the other; had Hee not been afflicted both w:ith outward troubles, and inward terrours. It is the highdt, and moll: Heroicall ACl: ofFaith, andit is improved to the utmofi:, and provedfieelc to the b1cke,as theif.ay; Then to truft in the 'J:(j!me of th~ Lord, andto /fay upon our qod; when we walk§ in d.trk!zeJTe, and haue no lil/;t; God is befi: pleafd, and moO: honoured,when we reil: upon him, without any fenfible comfort. I make no doubtJbut that admirable ejaculation of lob, Though he flay me,&c. did hold fcale in Gods acceptation, withal thofe innocencies,integrities,&gratiousconformities to his holy Law ; ble£1e~1 fruits,I confefi~, ofh1s invincible Faith enumerated, Cvzp.j r. Nay,did incomparably over-weigh them; ~6rabams 6eleev inrr a~ainfl hope, was farre above & of infinite more w~~tl; with God, then the Sacrifice ofhis Son,or all His other glorious fervices.It is no fuch great matter or maCtery,to be co:1fident; when we are encouraged and hired, as it were, with ioy andpeacein Geleeving;but then to O:icke to Chrifr,and His fure Word, wheti wehave againft us fenfe.and rcafon, fleil.1 and blood,feare$ and feeling, Heaven and Earth and all C,reatures ;· Tha,t is the Faitli indeed) there is its excellen~y ; there·is the true and orient fparkling, aud fpleudour of t9a.t heav.enly Iewell.That pr;Jyer is tru~ Iy fervent,fuJJeft -of Spirit~ and enforced with m oH unut_terable grones, which is poured out for the recovery ofGods pleafed countenance,after it hath bin turned away from us for a time.That love is moft in... du{b::ious and mighty ,growetnftrong M death,and in- . to amo.fivehementflame, which is enkindled in the. upright foule, . wbe.o Her dean:ft Lov.c is de;parted in . rdpeCl: offeeling and fruition. 0 ! Then fbe prizeto · and_pt"aifethHis fpirituall beauty and· excellency, as oneexce.edingly .ftcktof lo.v.e., and takes on extremely: . . A:i
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