~-----·~-------------------- Inftrufliont fir 4 rif.ht cemforting . Se.:l.3. --_...,...-----·-u-p_o_n_us-to af'fiia: us ~~1;-i1is owne immediate hel- . lifh fugge~ions; foa~etimes our owne ~nn~s grie. voufiy affaght us, ~tth renewed repr~fentattons of horrour ; Sometimes our owne God frownes upon Us himfelfe, with his difpleafed and angry coume.. n:tnce ·; and m love le; ves us a while, to the terrours ofa ipirituall defertion : He fometimes !ayes his vi!iting hand upon our bo.iies-, and cafteth us downe upon our Beds of lickne!fe; .Sometimes he fends heavy croffes · upon-our outward States and breakes the Staff.: ofour profperity; Continually,al- . moit, he u1ff.:rs many maliciqus curres to barke at us with ilanders, lyes,difgracefull imputations; and all the enemies ofgrace, to pudue us bitterly with much malice and difdaine: Thus are wee trained, and ent~rtained in this world; Our _Crowning 9,TodrivetoGod. comes 111 the world to come. Nmthly, To caufe thee to have recoude with more reverence, thirll, and thankfullacknowlcdgemem to tpe Welhead of refrefhings : if God once withdraw the light ofhis countenance, and c'omfortable quickening ofhis Spirit; we !hall finde no comfort at all in any Creature, no life in the Qrdinances,t'o feeling ofbur-fpidtualllife ; and therefore we muG: needs, ·to the der-fpringing Fountaine of All- fufficiency, &c. Which bleffed ends and ef[:crs, when the good . hand ofour God hath wrought; Hee w i ll as certainely returne;as ever the Sunne did after the darkdl: Mid-mght; and that with abundance ofglory and fweet:ncs,proportionable tothe former d.ejecrionand darkneffc ofour fpitits.The lowefr ebbe ofa fp1rituall defertion,brings the highefi tide of fpirituall exulta· tion.As we may fee before in Mill: .Brettergh and Mr, Pt~ock£,pag.84. . · ~.From the c1ufe of 2. What is the reafon thou :;rtfo fad and fore at: thy great gricfe~ . flitted for the abfence of thy B doved , and with Tny farmet:enJoymg 'f l · . r ' b 0 Chrdl. want o t 1e wonted grac1ous and comrorta le vvor- . kings
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