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That
we
cannotiltdgeo
foure
late
in
the
time
oftentation:
with
a
fiedfafl faith
and confiant patience; and
you (hall
per..
ceiue
that Gods
loue,
and the graces
of
Gods
fpirit
in
him,
were
fo
fhadowed
with
the
grieuoufneflíe
of
his
prefént af-
fliatons that
he could
not
difcerne
them.For
he complaic:eth
like
a
man
utterly
cafi
off and reieeted
of
God.
Pfal.88
Pfalm
S
8.z4.
Lord
Irby
doll
thou
reie,;1.
my
foule,
and hided
thy
face frog.
me
?
16.
Th
ne
indignation
is
gone oucr
me,
and
thy
feare bath
cut
me
and 77.8,9.
o;
:The
like
complaint he
takethvp,Pfal.77.8.9.io.Neither
had the
Prophet
in
thefe times alwaies the
fpirit
of
fùpplica-
tion
and prayer,but fometimes the
grieuoufheffe
of
his
paine
Pfalm.3z.3.4
did
Phut
his
mouth
fo
as
he could
not
confeflè his finne, nor:
humble
himfelfe
before
his
God
;
though
through the
waight
of
afflic
ion,his bones
were confumed,and
he
roared
for
grieEe
all
the
day
long,
as
appeareth
Pfalm.32.3.4.
So
ierem.ZO.r4.
leremie
Peeing
the
word
of
God
contemned, and
himfelfe
15.18.
who
was
Gods
ambaffador
defpifed,
could
not
beare it
but
burfieth out into
great impatiencie,
curfing
the
day
of
his
birth,
and
euen
the man
that brought
newes
:hereof to
his
-father,
becaufe he was
borne
to
fee
labour and forrow, and
that
his daies fhould
be
confurrted
with fhame.Ierem.2o.14.
15.18.
If
therefore
we
fudge
of
lob,
D.zuid,
and
leremie.
ac-
cording to their outward behauiour,and their
owne inward
feeling
in
the time ofaf
i
ions,and
in
the
combate
oftemt
tations
we
fhould thinke them
voyde
of
faith, impatient,
and
deflitute
of
all affurance
and hope
of
Gods
loue
and fa-
tour
:
but
the
Scriptures teach
vs
otherwife, propounding
them vnto
vs as Maternes
of
patience and true
god}
ineffe;
and
themfelues
an
at other
times
doe thew
their
fingular
faith,
patience,and the
ref+
of
the
graces
ofGods
fpirit. See-
ing
then this
is
not
our
cafe
alone,
but
the
flare
ofGods
dea-
refi children, let
vs
not
beleeue
the.temutter
telling
vs
that
tie
are
not
Gods
children,
becaufe
we
fee
not Gods
graces
fo plainely
in
the time
of
temptation
and
triall,
but
contra-
Ti«
ife
bewray
our irnpatiencie
and
other corruptions:but
let
vs
be truely
humbled
in
the'fie.ht
of
our infirmities, laboring
and.firiuing to reforme
them;
and
iudge
of
our flate, not
as
we
finde it
in
the time
of
the conflict,
but
as
it
was or
is
be-
fore
or
after the combate
is
ended.