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Notes of tryall
about
trueC'omfort
from falfe.
143
not before
in
all
thy life
:
&faith
one, I
rind my
heart troubled
for fin, and mourning for
fin,
I
v\
ould
have
comfort,
and
God
knowes
l
read
the word,
and
there
I
find
precious
and
excel
lent
truths , I
but
they do not
get tomy
heart
;
well,
I
come
to heare the word
,
and
I
find
that
I
get
nothing thereby
;
.I
but
I
will come
again:,
and
waite
at
the
poole
to
fee when
the
Angel
will come
and
ftirr.:
in my
heart
:
w`Il,
now though
it
come not
yet-,
yet at length thou
shalt
be.
able
to
fay
as
Mr
glover that
{poke
to his Friend
Aptfim,-
thoughfie
could
have..
no
Comfort
for
a long
time,
yet
at
length when
he
carne
in
fight
of
the
flake, he cryes.to
his
Friend,
0 h
is come
he is
come:
So
in
the
de
ofmeanes
waite whilethe
word
£hall
come.
and
clofe with
thy
heart,
that
thou
mayeft:
have Comfort.
Wel1,1
cannot
fay
but thar'God
hark.
Comforted my
foule in
.
my
mourning"Condie
on,
O that
I;did,huricnow whether
it
were the Comfort
of 'jefus-Chrift
yea or
-no
Well,
Ile
-
give you two
or
three
notes
toknow whether it
be,
the Qom-
fort
of;Jefus
Chrift or
no.
In
the
firfl
place'
If
thy
Joy
and
Comfort
the
jöy
of
the Lord, why then
it
o:
thy
J
ength
:
fo
Nehemiah
faith
to
Nehen.
^,
io.
the
people
:
you find
Joy
brings
strength, Comfort
brings:
firength
to
your
foules
:
As thus
;
Cantl
thou fay,
well through
Gods mercy,
though I were weak
heretofore,
and could
not
overcoi
ne
fuch and filch
Corruptions ,
fine
God
bath fpoken
peace
to
my Soule,
I
have
found
more firength
to,
come
into
my
heart
to
overcome
my
corruptions
then
ever
I.did
before,
why
is
this
thy
Comfort
?
cloth
it
work thus
?
Peace
to
thee,it-
is from
God
;
that that carries
unto
God, it
conies from
him,
it
is a
Delufion,
or
a
Fanfie
:
hypocrites are
difcovered
in
this
as
much
as
in any thing-
;though
when
they
are
in
terrors, then
g
they will
take
heed of
fin,
and
fet
upon
duty
;
but
when
they
have
peace, then
they
grow
more
loofe
;
but it
is
orherwife
filch whofe
hearts are fincere
with God:
Secondly,
That
that
is
the true Comfort
of Chriffians,
is
fed
by
that that at
fin
i
wrought
it
:
Look what
begets
a
thing
doth nourifh
it,
fo the Philofophers
fay
;
It's
fo
in
nature;
and'.
k's
.fo in
the
heart
of
man;
Tooke
what nouriihes thy
Com-
fort-,,