176 GeneralI dirai<tions for Itis, as it were, the amiable fplendour and fparkle of that white, in the Revelation. Chap. z.i 7. which only fhines uporlheavenly hearts, with delight unfpeakeable andgori- oers : for feat and certainetie ; It is inwraven by the Fingerof God withan heavenly Sun-beame, as it were, finning from the face of Chrifl in the very center of the13eart; which not all the powersofdarkenes or helliíh milts can finally dimme or difpell ; the worldneither give nor take from us , neither man, nor dwell, nor fhàdowofdeath ever raze or roote out. le is honoured with that fupernaturall fingularitie and facred teaaaper,thatutterly againft nature and all natural]pofliibility, itextra&s fweetneffe and life out of ordinary caufes ofde- je tionand finking. Troubles, perfeciations, andreproaches, doe fortúîe it, and ferve asfuell toenlarge its lightfornenef]è. See Aft. 5.41.32 16.z5. A,`,ts and Monum. pag. zoo3. where the glorious Martyr,Woodman fpeakes thus : When 1have been inprifon, wearing otherwhile bolts etherwhilesdhackles, other.. while lying on the bare ground, fometimesfatting in thefoockes, fometimesboundwithcoards, that allmy bodybathbeenefwolne; mushlike tobe over-comefor thepain that hath bin inns",fleJA; fometimesfain to lie without in thewoods and fields, wanderings to andfro ;few, I,fay that draft to keepemy company; forfeare of the Rulers fometimes brought before the.Irflices, Sherges, Lords, Dodors,andB ifhops ; fometimes called `Dogge,fonoetime Devil], Heretike, Whoremonger, Trayear, Thiefe, Deceiver, with divers other fetch like : yea and even they that didBate of mybread; thatfliouldhdve.beene moft myfriends by nature , .bave betrayedmee : retfor all this, I praife .My Lord God , thatbath fepaaratedmeefrommy mothers w01154 ; allthis that hath' hap- pened to mee, bathbeen eafie, light, andmofo delectable and iy- frill ofany-treafure that ever l popefled. For duration, It is a very glimpfeof heavenly glory, which.fpringingup in afan- ailed heart, out of the wells offalvation : and carried along withaddition ofthe frelh comforts, from the Word and .Sa. =moats, throùgh a fruitful] current and courfeof a Chtifii- anlife, is at laft entertained into the boundleffe and bottom- teffeOceanofthe endleffe joyes ofheaven. 4. 01
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