-~--~ Part.2.Cap.14. .Ajfiichd Confcienui. reprefentation offuch horrour out ofSatans crudlefl: malice,tbey arc happily kept more humble,watchfuJ, earndl: in urayer,eager after the means,weaned from the world:compailionate to others,&c. Hiding of Cods face fi:cm him,and leaving him to the darkndfe ofbis own fpirit~did put and preferve M .John GlovniJ a m oH: zealous,holy and heavenly hfe for ever afte_r. He<lrethe""·Story. · · · *Foxe, Jntt1e Story Thi1 gentlcm~;n /;ein<~ called l'Y the l~~?;ht of the holy cf M Rcbm GIO'!Jer, Spirit,to the k!wrdedge of the G ofjell, and having re- :md vf ioh1 GlotFf ceived a \\'ondrous fv.·eet feeling of (hrifls lxaveidy htsBrothcr,_pag. 188 5• _]( ingd~rl"t-t: Hi<·mina'e r.fter that, falling a little to (ome cogimiion ~f hisformer afftdres, bdonging to his vocation,began 6y and ly to mifdoubt himjelft upon occttjion ofthoje word.r,Ed::.6+lorit isimpoffibk,&c. Vpen conjideratiom oj'P:hich Words, He was fo farre dejened, as to be p~rfwaded, that he had finned againfl the holy G hoff, even fa much, that if h~e had 6eene in_ the deepest Tit of hell, hee could ~bnoft ha·ve defjaired no more of hu folvatirm--·-Beingyoung, faith Foxc, I remember, I WM once or twice \\1ith him,· Whom partly by his talkt, I perceived, andpartly kr mine owne eyes, fow to he (o Worne and confomed, ~y the fjw:e offive Jeares, that neither a!moff any broo'kJ.ng ofmeate, quietnejJe offleepe, pleafore oflife, yea; artCl ~lmofl no kf:nd (if jenfes WM l~(t in him.Jo ----Who in fuch intokrable gtiefes ofminde, <1lthough he neitber hv;d, nor · coul£bave .my _ioy ~(hi& m~ ate, 7et WM hee co~pelled to eate a,~azns1 hu appettte, to the end, to deferre · the time ofhu d~o~mm.ttion, [o long M he might; thinkf:ng ·with JJim(elfe no lejfo,, !mt that he m;,tfl neds bee throwne into Hell, the breath /;einl once out ofthe B odf. , Albtit Ckris't, He tl•oulht, did pitty hiJ cafe,. and wa.'-s flmy for f..im: 7et hee could not (M hee imagined) ~::ipe, ~mmfe c.frhe vaity of the VYord;whic_h (rzid: It lS· lmpofhUe,&c.But what was the hapry 1fTue,&dE8: cf tl:efc extr~.ordinary-fpit:ituall terrours and terrible · defertion ? #.
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