sea-.J ------~---: by an omnipotent influence: And Gad'WM nroer n~e- ---- - - ----- ~--:--- ----. -· · •• b In a gloomy D.1y there is fo mwch Lghr, w!lerby we may know it eo be DJy, and nor niahr: fo there is fome rhi'ncr in a Chrilliln " under a Cloud,where. by He may be difccrned to be a true Believer ,and not an Hypo- .c;,trite, There is no ·mecl'e d:ukndfe in the !lace of Grace, but f-ome bcJme of light, whereby the kingdome of d-arkner wbolv preVll!e rh not. 'JJo&for Sibb:r Bmi[ed Reed, rer unt~ Him, than then ; neither He, ever fo o!Jedient unto God, And I make no doubt, but that the judicious eye of the well-experienced Phyfition, may many times eaHiy ob£erve it, in thofe troubled, tempted and deferted ioules, which they deale and converfe with, for recovery and cure. This fecret and f:tving influence (I {peake of) might be evidently difcerned in Mafl::er Peacoc~,e\·en at the worfl::.Somc: reverend Minifters fl::anding by his bed of forrow, asked h1m, if they fhould pray for him : Marke well his anfwer, Tttk.:; not theName of God in vaine (foi_i hee) f,y prt~yingfor a Rcpro6"te. Which words w-ell wcighed,feeme to imply,and repref::nt clcerdy to a · fpir:ituall difcerning j udgement,fome good meafure, cven~fthe highefl:: degree of3ivine love; preferring the glory of God, before the wdl-bre of his owne foule ; rather willing to have the meanes of his fllvation negletl:ed, then the Lord difhonourcd. One, meaning a godly man: Yes, flith he. Why? For hil goodneffi. Another eomming to .him upo;1 the Lordr My, willed him to put his hai1d to a note ofcertaine debts:Thu u not t1 d"J for th.4t, faid hee. And at the £me time, he would hardly fuff.:r any to ftay with him from the ~ermon. Being told of fuffi:ring plaifiers out of Gods VVord, to refl:: upon his wounded foule: He brake out thus : 0 h ! if Ilal. 0 1J ! if it "Wouldpleafo God. I had r,pher then any thin,~ in thu, or other three thoufand Worlds !• By thefe wee m~1y b fee,and other paflage$ to the f.une purp6ic; that our bleifed God had a f-:crct working, ~nd ft, ing influence upon hisfouk, even in the depth :1nL} hideous darknelfe of his mofr grie,·ous dcCrtion. Here is love, firfr, unto God in a high degree ; fecondly , dean: ajfeffion unto his Children, and that for his Irnage fhining in them; thirdly, lo·vc nnto his Sa/JAiths,and fa! vatioq of others; fourthly , vehtment clef res
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