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the Lord
may take
them away
;
and
becaufe he
delights
ih
the
meer
ac`tings
of faith,
that
is
the reafon why
God with-
draws
hinifelf trom the
fouls
of
his
people
that they
fhall
not have
the
ufe
of
Signs
and Evidences
as
they
had
before,
becaufe he
would teach
them to
live
on
the
more
necefhary
as
of
faith
;
God
loves
the
voice
of
fob,though
he
kill
me,
yet
will
trrsj
?in
him; I
will
venture my
foul upon
him
,
what-
ever
becomes
Of
me
;
when
there's nothing
elfe
to reff
on
but
God,
then to live by
ac`tings
of
faith
meerly
on
him
,
he
de-
lights much
in
this
;
and
therefore
take heed
you
do
nçt
rest
fo
much
on
figns,
as
if
all
your
comforts
were
loft and
you
undone, when you cannot
have fuch ufe
of them
as
you
have
had heretofore.
Ninthly,
when you
have
at
any time
loft
the
ufe
of
figns,
do
net
determine
that
all
is
gone, and
that
you
Pall
never have
the
ufe
of
them
more
;
this
is
that that mightily
hinders many
poor
Chriftians
that are
in
trouble
of
Confcience,
becaufe
they
cannot
find
the
evidence
of
Lhe
pardon
of
their fins, and
that
God
accepts
of
them
in
what
they do
;
what do
they
do
prefently
?
they yield
to
the
horrible
fentence
of
damnation
againft
themfelves
:
Gods
Spirit,
fay
they,
is
now
gone,
and
he
will
return
no
more
;
he will
never come
any
more unto
me
:
take heed
you
do not
faften any
fuch kind
of
thoughts
s
thofe
are, to
determine
of your
own estates,
or
that
Gods
Spirit will
not
come
again
:
but
do
you
humble
your
fouls
be-
fore
the
Lord,
and wait upon
him.
Tenthly,
When
at
any time all.Signs
and Evidences
fail
you,
and
you
are ready
to
determine
that
all
is
gone,yet
even
then
keep up
goodthoughts of
God
;
As
the
Spoufe
in
the
Canticles
when
her
Beloved was
gone,yet
she
prized him,
and faid,
He
is
the
chiefeft
of
ten thoufands,
in
Cant,
5. when
Che
was asked
,
What
is
thy
beloved
?
fays
hie,
he
is
thus
and
thus,
&then con-
cludes,
He
is
altogether
lovely
;
and
this
was
at
fuck
a
time
as
he
was
gone, yet the
retain'el
good thoughts
of
him
;
fo 'tis
a
good
fign
for
any
foul,
that when trouble
of
confcience
is
'upon
them, or
any
other
trouble
,
that they retain good thoughts
of God
and
Chrift,
and the
ways
of
God,
when
the
foul
'îys,
whatever
become
of
me
,
though
I
perifh
for
ever
Dd
)let