--------------~----~--~----~---------- s 24 ~njlruEfio1~ for A riJ.h~~o!!!fO_rti~g SeCl,3. much .difl:ratl:ed amazement and feare. Fourthly, that,that heart ofhis,which had formerly full fweet~ ly tafl:ed thofe holy pleafures, which farre palfe the comprehenfton ofany carnall conceit, fhould now be fo brim full,& dammed up with excelfe ofgriefe; that no vent, or paif;:tge fhould bee left unto His fpeech. Fifthly, And which, Me thinkes,is the perfection ofhis mifery in this kinde, that amidft all thefe heavy difcomforts,His Soule- ili<:luld refufe to be comforted.That though the Miniil:ers and Men ofGod ftand round about him,bring irito his minde, and pre£1: upon him the pregnant evidences, and te- :I.Hmonies ofhis owne godly life, the unchangeableneffe ofGods never-failingmercies"t{) his;the fweetneife ofhis glorioL:s Name; the foveraigne power and mighty price of his Sonnes blood; tlle'infallible and inviolable pretioufi1eife, and truth of the pr0mifes oflife,&c.Yet in the agony and anguil11 of His grieved fpirit, He puts them all away fromHim, as none ofHis,nor as propc:rly belonging to His prefent ~ate. He is readier out ofHis fpirituall diil:emper, tofpill,as water·upon the ground, the golden vials of the water c;>flife, and foveraigne oyles of Evangelicalljoy, tendered unto Him by the Phyfition ofHis Soale, then to receive them with wonted thirfl: and thankfulnes into the bruifed bofome of His bleeding Confcience.Though they afiure Him in the Word of life and truth,having had (for that I fuppofe)true and found- experience ofHis converfion, and former fan· a:ified courfes,froin I (a.44. 2 2. That as the .,heate, .and firength of the Summers Sun, cloth dtfperfe and diifolveto nothing,a thicke mill or foggy Cloud : fo the inflamed zeale ofGods tender love, thorow the bloodfhed ofHis owne only deare Sonne, bath done away all his offences; Hi.J iniquity, tran.fkrtffion and ,. finne,as though they had never been.And Mic.h~7. I 9· That;that ~d,which delight~th in mercy, ver£18. . - - h~
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