Part.2.Cap.1 3. AjJU£1ed Confciences. moil: terrible and intolerable tortures .: The heart .of that .holy Proto-Martyr, Stn;en was 'furnithed, ·and filled with thofe heavenly infufions of fpirituall firength and joy ; when the Heavens opening~ he .faw thec'l,lory ofqod, and le[U~jlandi:nc~ on hiJ right ht~nd; which were glorioufly tranfcending,and triumphant overthe utmoft of all corporall .paine , and I e:n4h cruelty. Andfo gracioufly dealt He with many other Martyrs in fucceeding ages; as we may reade in Ecclefiafiicall ftones. Fourthly,He may fometimes alfo out of his ~ercifull wifedome, put into their -.hearts fuch a deale ofHeaven before hand, and ; raviihing comforts ofthe world to come; that the excdfe thereof cloth fwallow up, _and devoure, as it were, the bitterne£fe of all bodily. infliCl:ions, and .fuff.:rings offenfe. Thus mercifully dealt He. with that worthy Martyr,Mr. Ro!Jtrt qlrw.er,. even;when .He was going tow:1rds the Stake. . He pouredjnto His So,ule upon the fudden, ft1ch overflowing Rivers offpintuall joyes, that no douht, they mightily a- :bated and quencbt the ragefull fnries ofthofe Popifh flames, wherein hee was facrificed for the profef.. ·fion ofthe Gofpell of Chrifl, and Gods everlafl:ing ·truth. And affuredly that comfortable Sun-thine of .uuexprefieable joy, which, ,. by _the ·good hand of God,was fhedintC>'Mafter Peacock.! forrowfull heart, . in the depth ofhis darkeneife and defertion, a little before the refignation of his happy Soule into the :hands ofGod; d1d make the pangs of death; anti :that dreadfull..pafiage, a great deale leife paiaefull and fenfible , if 1iot very lightfome and· pleafant~ ~Now in both thefc men ofGod, a woefu-11 fpirituall --derelidion, was a fit introduction, and- immediate preparative to the eff.u:ion of fuch a fudden torrent ·.offi:range exultations,and raviil1ment of fpirit, up.. .on their fad and:heavy hearts. Conceive the Point ~then.thus.:The.lorcl fometimes.evcen in tendem~~ .. . and ~
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