,------------=---~~-----=--~==----------- r art.J. Chap. I 3. bath caft all his finnes into the bottome of the Sea, never torif~againe, either in this world, or in the · World to come. The Prophet alludes to the drowning ofthe .£gyptians in the red Se;~. And thcrfore they a{Elre l1im, that as that mighty Hofr fiinke downe into the bottome like aft~ne,exod. I 5 ·5. Or M Lead,ver(ro. So that neithertheSunne of Heaven,nor Son~1e ofman ever L1\V their faces any more: So certainely all his finnes are fo fwallowed up for ever, in thefoule-f:wing Sea of His Saviours blo~~ that the.y fhall never more appeare before the face of God or Angell, Man or Divell, to his damnation or fuame. Yet for all this, lying in a fpirituall fwoune, he finds his heart even. key-cold, and as it were, fiarke dead, in refpecr ofrelif.hing, or receiving all or any ofthefc incomp>arable comforts. The Ca~ · thus propofed, may feem~ very ,deplorable and def~ perate; yet confider, what good 'Davidt exf)erience might d~ in fuc h difrrdfe. What a deale oflife and light were it able, to put into the very . darkdl: dampe, and mofr heartleff~ Jaintings of fuel~ a dying Soule, to have fuch an one as 'D~Wid, even a man after Gods owne heart, remarkeably enriched and eminent with heavenly endowments; One of the highefl: in the Booke of life, a11d favour with God, to a«.1r.: it, that B.imfdf'e had already fuff:red as grievous things in his Soule, if nor greater; and pa!fed thorow the very ftme paffions, and pref. fi.tres of a troubled fpirit, if not with more variety and forer pangs. 1 hat proportionabiy to His p_refent perplexiti~s, he cryed out with a mofr hea'y heart: Firfl:,Wi/l the Lord r;afl off for ever? AndWill he he .fa-voura/;/e no more? b Hu mercy c!eane gon~ for 6Ver? Doth Hu.promi{efi-ziic for cveffJ??re ~ R11th God fi:r'J!;otten to he$r/iciom? Hath He in "!nf.er Jhut Hp HutentUr memei? ver[z,8,9. Secondly, Tha~ 'I.Jben ix rem(mbred .God, he WM trouhted, verf.3~ L 1 Thirdly . ) .. , . - ~ . ., ~ '( ... \' I . ' (,.•. . . ' '
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