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19 4

Golel

P

ein

jsiora,

workings

as

they

have had

heretofore,

and

cannot

find

them,

and

fo

are ready

to

conclude that

all

is

naught

and lie

down

as

people difconfolate,

becaufe

their

condition

is

not

good,

they

cannot

find fuch

Evidences

as

heretofore they

had

;

now

in

ibis cafe, the bcft way

is,

if

I

cannot

find

my Evi-

dences,

or

the

ufe

of them

I

had before, to renew them

;

the

time I

fpend

in feek

Tg

and

difcouraging

of

my

heart,

if

I

fpent

it in

ad

ings

-and

workings

of

my

heart after God

,

for

the

renewing

of

my Evidences, perhaps

I

might

have renewed

them

in

that time

;

as in

matters

between

men and

women

in

this

world,

they

have

Evidences

that

would

clear

the mat-

ters

in

differences

;

but

perhaps they cannot

find

them

,

or

they

are

grown

fo

old

that they

cannot read

them,

and

they

fpend

a

great

deal

of

time about them whereas pofíibly,

did

they

go

to the

Court

of

Roles

, they might

have

them

re-

newed

with

lefs

charge

and

time

;

fo

iris with

the

foul

when

it

cannot

find fuch and fuch

Evidences,

it

fpends

a

great

deal

of

time,

and

fits

down

in

difcouragement

and

difquiet-

nefs

of heart

,

when

as

perhaps

in

lefs

time thou

mighteft

have renewed

them

;

as

thus, fuppofe thou

art

looking after

this Evidence

of

thy

Calling

for God

calls

whom he

jufti-

fies

Now

thou

art

looking

after thy call,

and

thou

art

troubled

that thou

doff

not remember how

God

did

work

upon

thy heart

then,

or heretofore,

and

a

great

deal

of

time

is

fpent

;

cannot you

find

how 'twas

with you

then

?

No

then

fall

upon this

courfe,

liften to

what

voice

of

God

thou heareft

now

in

thy heart

fay

to

thy

foul, Do

not

I

now

findthe workof

God in

me

;

do

not 1

find

him

now

drawing

of

my

heart

out

of

the

'world unto

himfelf,

and

does

not

my

heart

liften

tint-at/2m

call? for the

call

of God

is

not

only

at

firft

conversion,

but

God

is

alwayes calling

and

drawing

the

heart

from the

world

unto

himfelf;

if

thou

can'ii

not make

ufe

of

the

work

of

God

heretofore

make

life

of

his present

work

upon thee

:

Again, thofe whom

God

juftifies, they

en-

ter

into Covenant with

God

;

for

it

was by

way

of

Cove-

nant

(as I

told you)

they

give up themfelves to

God

in

an

everlafting Covenant

:

But when did

I

come

into Covenant

with God

?

I

am afraid

I

am

not the

man

or

woman

in

Co-

venant