of drift in all Beleevers. day. It may be for the prefent you cannot fay, that Chrift is inyou, you in him, and he in you : but did ye never think yet in all your life that Chrift was in you ? Yes, once or twice, or fornetimes, I confers I did think that Chrlii was in me, and I was firongly perfwaded too, that Chaff was in me ; but now I have loft thofe,perfwafions. But how came ye to be fo perfwaded at that time that Chrift was in you ? Thus it was with me, My heart was Dead, Hard, and I could not pray ; I thought that God and Mercy was gone, that I fhould never fee the face of God again ; and all on a fudden, when my foul was in this fad condition, I know not how, but all on a fudden, a ftrange and unfpea- kable comfort came upon my foul, and my foul hood up,as it were, from the dead, and then I had that perfwafion, that Chrift was in me. Well, foul ! be of good comfort, this was Chrias time, that was Chrifts time ; and though now for the prefent, thou canft not fay, that Chrift is in thee ; I tell thee from the Lord, that time (hall come again,- and Chrift will fend theComforter again, and then (halt thou know, that thou art in the Father, and Chrift is in thee, and thou art in Jefus Chrift : for what he laid unto thole Difciples, he laid unto other ofthe Difciples, Wait but a little, and though I be abfent for a little time, I will fend the Comforter, and then (hall you know : although you donot know now, yet there is a time, when the Com- forter (hall come, and then (halt thou know, that Chrift is in thee, and thouart in Jefus Chrift. Fourthly. Although for the prefent, you do not find thole working s of Chrifi in you, and thole powerful ope- rations of the Spirit, which fhould argue this fame In-be- ing ; Yet do ye not find Come workings of grace in your foul, accordingunto that Place, Bootn, and Station that you have in the Body of Chrift? The foul, ye know, is in thebody, yet the foul does not put forth fuck power in one Member, as it puts forth in another ; the foul does mot aa in one Member, as it does inanother ; it doesnot put forth fo much hrength in the little Finger, or in the Thumb, as P 2 it 4.
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