comfortable walking. with God. 327 thee, as hedid toDaniel, Greatly beloved. And why fhould any Popiûicaviller contradi& this, fich even Bella-min himfelfe fpeakes proportionably in anothercafe ? Vpon a paWage in AuJiin,acknowledging the interior efficacyof Gods Spirit, givingteiimony to ourhearts concerning the truth of that which is contained in the Scriptures, faith bhe; Thu light of b Hot igitur eft faith is a .certaine toflimony of God b which it i ald to the ecret lumenSeei, audí- .y f l tores,teíiimorJi. cogitationsofour hearts, That is true, thou needefi not to doubt um quoddamDei, thereof Here is an immediate teflimony of the Spirit gran- quointusiudomi^ cilio cordis`dici. ted for the confirmation of the truth of the Word ; why tut nobis; rta'ft: may not the like be expe&ed for an affurance of the worke n i tim ' of theWord ? Mighty and remarkeable was the worke of fdei.seQ.Peiagi_ the Spirit this way upon the heart of that Noble Martyr,a "`guidem. Robert Glover, upon the firft fight and reprefentation of the Stake (fo fweetly feafonable isGod in all his refrefhings.) For twoor threedayes before hisdeath, bee was full heavily oppreffed with the fpirituall miferies ofa dead heart, and fpiritualldeCertion. Inwhich timenodoubt hee cried migh- tily unto God, and often refleaed the eye of his renewed confcience upon a truly, beleeving penitent, humble, holy andheavenly heart; refolved toftcrifice its warmed blood in the mercileffe fire, for the teftimouyofJefus; and yet no comfort would come. But in the very nicke and needfull time, as you may fee in the Story, the blefled Spirit did fud- denly Thine intohis darke anddefolate foule, with the glo- rious beamesofhis owne immediate comfort, and fo fenfibly filleditwith fuchoverflowing Rivers offpirituall joyes,that no doubt they mightily abatedandquencht the ragefull fur r ofthofe Popich flames, wherein he fweetly fell a fleepe. It was a fpeciall anclimmediate fpringingofthe holy Ghoft in his heart, which madeMailer Peacocke, after many dayes of extremen horronr, profefíe, that The joy which hefelt in bis confcience, was incredible. Wee feele and acknowledge by daily experience, that Satan Both immediatly inje&; and thall not the bleffed Spirit, after his holy and heavenly man- ner, immediately alfo fuggen fometimes ? Neither is this to be reputed anextraordinary revelad Y 3 on,
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=