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ever

befel

thee,

and

there

is

nothing

elfe

that

thou letteft thy

heart

run

out

unto

,

but

thou

art

longing to

get

thy heart

in-

to that

blefhed

frame

that thou waft

in

heretofore

;

then

certainly

peace

be

unto thee

;

thou art to

look

back

upon

what

thou

haft had

heretofore ,

and

wait upon

God

for

his

return

again,

for

he will

come,

and

thy

foul

(hall rejoyce

again

yin

him

;

As

that

Martyr

Mr.

Glover,

a

little

before

he

Jufer d,

the Spirit

of

God

feem'd

to

leave

him,

and

he

was

in

extreai

darknefs,

and

had

no

feeling of

any

Evidence

of

Gods

love to

him,

yt

he

was

to dye

the

next day,and

all

his

Evidences

were

ílßß'

in

his own

apprehenfion,yet his

friends

told him,

that

God

would

appear,and defred

him

to

give

them fame

fign,

if

God

did

come

unto him

;

that

night

he

was

in darknefs,and

until

the

Of-

ficers

came

to

carry

him

to

the

Stake,

he

hadyet

no

fenfe

or

evi-

dence

of

Gods

love, but

when

he

was

tyed

to

the

Stake,

he

cryed

out,

He

is

come,

He

is

come

:

fo

that

you muff

not

argue,

be

caute

you

have no

pre-tent

fenfe,

that

therefore you

have

no

evi-

dence

of

your good

condition

;

but

if

you

have had

it

hereto-

fore,

you may

build upon it

that

your

Rate

is

good,

although

you

have no

prefent

fenfe

;

that

is

the

fecond

Rule.

The third

rule

is

this,

To

help

you

how

to

make

tife

of

figns

when

yen would

put yourfelves

on

tryal,

you muff

take

heed you

do

not call'

your Eftates

for

the

tryal of

your felves

on

times

of

.temptations

;

judge

not

of your

eftates

by what

you

find

and

feel

in times

of temptation,

for

they are

very

unfit times to

de-

termine your

condition upon

a

tryal

then

,

as

when

tempta-

tions are

exceeding

ftrong,

and

horrour

and

fear

comes

into

the

foul

and

perhaps

forne

here

may know

what

I

mean

,

when I

(peak

of horrour

and fear coming

in

ftrongly

upc

rt

them,

then

it

is

a

time

that

you

had

rather

need

to

call

upon

God,

and fall

down

upon

your

knees to

Prayer

,

than to

look

to

the

tryal

and

examination

of you

felves

at

that

time

It

is

with

many

in

this

cafe

as

it

hath

been

with

fome

that

have

been

ftruck with

horrour

of

death

before

the

Judge

,

and

have had the

Book given

them to read ,

though they

have

been

good Scholars,

and

able

to read before, yet when the

horrour of

death hath

been fo upon

them they

have

not

been able

to read

one

word

;

and fo

it

is

with

many

of

i

Gods