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168 That
we
cannot
iudge
of
our
effáte
in
the
time
of
tentation.
oftemptations,but
wee are
to looke into
our
felues
when
the
fit
is
pa.f+
and
the
confli&
ended, and then
!hall wee
finde
our
patience
by
experience
of
Gods
loue confirmed, our
faith
renued,
all
other
graces
firengthened
and increafed
;
and
then
111all
wee clearelie difcerne the
bright
beamesofGods.
loue and fauour,
fhining
vpon
vs,
when the
cloudcs
oftemp-
trtion
are
pail:
away
which did hide
therm
from
vs.
g,Se3.8.
But
if
in
the
time
of
triall and
temptation
we iudge accor-
Tbat.Gods
ding to
our prefent
fenfe
and
feeling,wee mull
needs
bee
de--
deare
children
ceiued
:
for it cannot be denied
but
that
euen
the
de are
chil-
in grie'w
s
.
dren
of
God
who haue receiued
a
great
meafure
of
grace,
temptations
when the hand
of
God
is
vpon
them
doe
doubt
of
his
loue
fhew
rmi,o
i-
ency,axd
vttrr
and
fauour, and when they
are
grieuouflie
affli
&ed
doe
be-
fometime
in-
Wray
their corruption,
and
Phew
their
impatience by
vtte-
confiderate,
ring
inconfiderate fpeeches;
for
while
wee
continue
in
this
e
<chcs..
life, we haue
the
reliques offinne
hanging
on
vs,
and we
are
partlie
flesh
and partly fpirit,yea
the
flefh
is
the ífronger part,
and therefore
it
is
nomeruaile
if
the
flefh
being
pinched in
the time
of
temptation doth
complaine, and being launced
deepelie
with
the rafor
offharpe
affli
&ions
Both cry
out for
paine, complaining
of
the Surgeon
that
he
dealeth
too
rigo-
rouflie
with
him. And
ifmen through bodilie
ficknes
haue
their
iudgements blinded, their vnderftanding
dafíed
and
milled,
their
memorie
ouerthrowne,
fo
that
they
can
put no
difference
betvGeene
their
friends
and their enemies,but euen
raile vpon
thefe
whom
in
the
time
of
their health
they
dearely
loued,and thinke none
fo
much
their
enemie
as
their
phyfition, rauing
and inconfideratelic fpcaking they know
not
what
;
what wonder
is
it
if-the
like
effe6ts
follow
the
fickneffe
of
the foule,when
it
is
as
it
were
fet
vpon the
racke,
preffed
with the
burthen offinne,
and tormented with the
apprehenfion
of
Gods anger,
confidering
that
thefe
kinde
of
affliaions
are farre
more grieuous and
without
compa-
Pto.1
Li4.
rifon
more intollerable,
for
a manmayfuf1aine his infirmities,
but
a
wounded
fJirit
7,rho
can beare
?
as
it
is
Prou.28. i 4.
What
meruaile
then
is
it,
if
they take
God
for
their enemie,
when
they
feele
his fharpe
medicines,though
in
truth
he bee their
louingPhyfition,
who by this
meanes cureth them
of
their.
difeafes