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Confederations to
fupport the
hearts of
thofe
that
hunger &c.
able
to
do befides
:
Mo(+people think
the
Will
is
nothing, but
would
do
better,
many
-fay
my
heart
is
good,
and
my will
to,
I
wculd be
better
if
I
could
:
thou
doff
not
know what
the
changing
of
the
will
means,
that
haft
fuch
flight thoughts
of
the
gaining
of the
will;
It's
the
difl
cultef
work
of
all,
even
the
gaining
of the
will
ofLthe
foule
of
a
(inner ro
the obedience
of the
truth.
Fifthly,
Know
for
thy
further comfort, where
there
is
the
leaf
degree of grace, there
will
be encreaíing,
there
will
be
a
growth:
where
there
is
true feed
fown
there
is
the ble
frog
of
God
in
it,
and
God
that
bath begun
his
good work,
will
finiih
it
in
his
good
time
:
God never
begins
a
work
and
lets
it
lye,
he doth
alwayes
petted
his own works;
Gods
works
are
like himfelfe,
as
God
is
perfect
in
himfelfe,
fo
what
ever
he
works
upon the foule
he works
pettedly,
and how
ever
weak
and
feeble
Grace
may
be at the
fir(,
yet
know
that
God
as
he
bath
begun,
fo
he will
carry
on
to
perfecting the work.
When
thou findefi thou
haft a
defire after good, and longed
after
this righteoufnefle,
and
caníi not do
what thou
wouldef,
thy
defires are
better
then
thy ability, thou
thouldef
reafon
thus,
that
God
makes
thee to
fee
the
vanity
of
thine
own
heart,
in
thinking
it
an
eafie
matter
to
overcome corruption,
a
thing of
nothing
to
fand
again(
a
temptation,
herein thou
íhouldef
fupport thy
felfe,
now
the Lord
convinces
thee
of
this thing,
thou
finde(i
a
difficulty
in
ir,
and
calif
not doe
it
:now
hereby
thou art convinced
of thy
folly and vanity,
be quiet then
in
fubmitting to the dealings
of God
in
this
thing;
God
cloth
not
intend
me
any
hurt
in this
;
We
fhould not
make
'fuch
hard
and ill conftru&ions
of Gods
dealing
in
this kind,
but we
fhould improve
fuch
difpenûirions
of
God
for
our
gold
;
as
thus
to
conclude,
that the Lord
in
this
doh
ot
intend
my
ruine,.but the
di!:covery
of
that fooliih
opinion which
I
had
formerly,
what an
eatie.matter
it
was
to
overcome the
bife
difemners
of
mine
own
heart
:
The
Lord
now
intends by
keeping me low
in
a
fad
condition;
that
thereby he might
raife
me up unto higher
glory,that
he
might prepare
me fo-
greater
degrees of comfort;
he
keeps
me
low, and
in
a
fad
c&idition,
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