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Confiders
iovas
to
fupport'ike
heárts'of
thofe
that
hanger
ç,
that
he
might
keep my
heart
fenfible of
its former
va ?i`ÿ,
and
that
thereby
he
plight
make
a
difcovery of the excellency of
his grace
:
therefore
thou
n
uft
not
now
conclude
that
God.
bath forfaken
thee,
and
that
thou (halt never
have
the
right:,
phi-Ilene
of Jefus
Chrif}, becaufe
thou
canif
not finde upon the
feeking
of
it,
that
-thou
haft
Obtained
it
c
No,
but
thou
must
reason
thus,
Gods
intentions are
to
humble
nie,
and not
tO
leave me.
In
the
Lail
place, Confider
for thy
fupport, when after
a
long
time
in
the
ufe
of
means
thou
dolt not
find
that God
cloth
come
into
thy apprehenfion,
and
to-
fatisfie
thee that
thou
haft
once
and
that
the
righteoufneffe
of
JefusChrift
is
thine;Confi-
der
this ;
That
God
would
have
the
worke of
righteoufnefie
appeare
in
the
abafing and humbling
of
thee,
rather then
in
gi-
ving
thee
power over thy corruptions,
it's Gods
defigne in this
thing,
and thou
fhouldeít interpret the
dealings of
God
with
thee
thus,
that God
hath various
wayes
for
the
working
of
his
ovine
grace, that
this
is
Gods dealing,to keep
thee
humble
and low,
and
herein grace
is
exercifed,
and thou
fhouldeft
fay,
is this
the
will
of
God,
to
keep
me
in darimeife,
and
not to
know in what
efiate
and
condition
I
am,
that
I
fhould
walke
warily, good
is
the
will of
the Lord,
thou
(l.ouldert beleeve
God
in
this condition
as
much
as
if
fo
be thou
hadil
fenfible
.
apprehenfions
of
thy
interef
in
righteoufneíle:We
would have
righteoufneffe many
times to
work upward in
joy,
in enlarge-
ments and in comfort, and when
it
Both
thus
worke, then
we
have
good hopes,
and
then
we think our
peace'
is
made
with
God,
and
our
int_ereft is
lure, but
if Cod
will have
it
worke
dówowardin
felfe
abatement,
foule- humbling,
and,
fpirit-de-
je
&ing,this is
as
well
a
working
of
the truth of
righteoufnelfe
in
the heart
as
if
it
did
work up
never
fo
high
in
joy and confo-
lation,
and this
Both
as
much
difcover
the truth of
righteouf-
nellein
thee,
as
if
thou
hadil the greatest. raptures and
eleva
tions,
and
therefore quiet
your
hearts in
this, it
is
a
mercy
that
the
work
of
God
is upon
thee
any
way,
there
was a
time
thou
mayeft.fey,
that
we
did
not
:mind any
thing
of
God,
but that
our
faces were
turned
againli
God,
and
that
we
did,
mind
the
things