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Goy
el
Bern
f
sione
that
they have
fence
of
nothing
and in
fuch
a
condition
as
that they
are
not
able to
know
their
own
hearts
,
feel
any workings upon them
:
Now,
if
it
be
meerly
rom
want
of
fenfe,
and
that
the
contrary
pofitive
evil
appear not
,
only
the want
of
feeling
of
what
thou
had'ft
and
felt
heeto-
fore
;
thou
art
to have recourfe
to
the days
cf
old,
as
David
often fpeaks
that
he
would
remember the
days of
old
;
it
may
be
you
will
fay,
fotne
Hypocrites
have
thought they
have
been in this condition ,
they
have had
many
flalltes
,
and yet
they
have proved
naught,
how
can we have
recourfe to what
was before
when
God
did
work
upon me
?
I
can
indeed
re-
member
when God
did draw
my
heart,and
then
I
thought
I
could
have
clofed
with
any
Evidence
out
of
the
LYord,
I
felt
fuck
workings
in
my
heart
;
but
I
might
do
all
that and
yet
all
be
but
in
hypocrifie.
I
anfwer,
that
certainly the
bare
want
of
fenfe
is
not ground enough
for
me
to
think that
all
was
in
hypocri-
fie
;
for
this,
confider
if
I
groan under
it
as
under
an
affiic`fi-
on ,
and
would
fain feel
thofe
former
manifeftations
I
had
formerly,
and
that
I
can
take
little
comfort
in
my prefent
cafe,
and
that
my
foul is
continually
longing
and
panting
af-
ter
the workings
of
Gods grace that
I
heretofore
had
;
if
this
be
fo,
and
that there
is
nothing
to
the
contrary
, thou
falleft
not off
to
fin,
or
to
the world
to
fatisfie
thy
foul
in
finful
ways,
and
that
thy
heart
is
yet
panting
after
God if
it
be
thus with thee , thou
rríay',ft
take
the comfort
of
what"
thou
had'ft
before,
and feed upon
it
as
Provifion
laid
up
be-
fore
-hand
for
thy
foul,
as
if
thou
had'ft
it prefenr.
But
Hy-
pocrites that
fall
off from the
vifitations
of
Gods Spirit, they
fall
not
off only
to
a
want
of
fenfe
of
thofe
fomer
movings
and
workings
of
the
Spirit,
but
their hearts
come
to
be
fatis-
fied
with
fomething elfe,
and
they
take up
with
fome
other
contentments
;
and
'ris not
a
want
of
feeling,
only, of
what
they
had heretofore
,
but
their
hearts run
out
from God
into
other
ways
of
fin
and
wickednefs,
fo
it
is
wish
Hypocrites,
but
thou
haft
this
teftimony, that
it
is
not
fo
with
thee,
that
although
thou
dolt
want the
prefent
fenfe
of
the work
of
God
upon thee,
yet thy
heart
longs
after
God,
and
thou
art
un-
fatisfied in
this condition,
and
'tis the greateft
afllic4ion
that
ever