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Our
want
of
feeling
arguethmnot
want
of
faith.
The
fire is
fotnetitne
fo
couered
with afhes,that
it
fendeth
forth
neither
light nor beate, and
therefore
in
outward
fenfe
and appearance,
it
feemeth
quite extinguifhed,
but
when
the
afhes are
remooued and
more
wood
added
to
it,itbur-
f}eth
out into
a
great
flame,aud makes
all
the
Handers
by
to
perceiue
his
heate
and light
;
and
fo
the
graces
ofGods
fpirit
are fotnetimes
fo
couered
with
the
afhes
of
our
corruptions,
that
there appeareth no
fparke
ofthem,
nor yet
any
heate
of
true comfort
;
but
when our
corruptions
are remooued
with
vnfained
repentance,and
a
new
fupply
of
grace minif'red
vn-
to
them
by Gods fpirit, then
doth
their
light
appeare vnto vs
and warme our hearts
with
true
comfort,
andnot
to.vs
alone
but
euen
thole
about
vs fee
our fhininglight,and.glorific
our
heauenly father.
A
man
hath not
alwaies
the
vfe
of
his
fenfes,
reafbn, and
vnderflanding,
as
in his flecpe;
butbecaufe
we
cannot
fenfi_
blie
difcerne there faculties, (hall we
therefore
conclude
that
this
man
rho
is
afleepe
is
fenfeleffc,vnreafonable, and
with-
out
vnderf}anding?
it
were mofhabfurd
-c:
for
if
wee
butex-
pe6l
a
while till hee bee
throughlie awakned,
our
argument
will
appeare manifefilie
falfe:
and
fo
fometime the
poore
Chriflian
is
ouertaken
with
the-
fleepe
ofdrawfic
fecuritie,
and
is
ouerwhelmed
for
a
time with
hardneffe
of
heart and
dulneffe
of
fpirit,
fo
as
none
ofthofe
fpirituall'graces -which
are
in
him
can fenfiblie
be difcerned by'
himfelfe
or
others;
but
(hall he
orwe conclude or
beleeue Satan
fo
concluding;
that
hee neuer
had
them;
or now
is
depriued
ofthem
?
-why
it were asabfurd
as.
the
other.
For when
hce
is
awaked
out
ofhis
drowfie lieepe
by the
voice
of
the
Jbrd
founding in
his
eares,
and by the
good motions
of
his
Rohe
fpirit,his
faith,
loue, zeale,
and
all
other
vertues
and
graces
Phew
theinfelue.s in
-their
f
nits
and aStiens,
as
manifeflly
.as
:in
for-
mer times.
4.Seli:3,
Seeing
then
thofe
atguments'w'hich
are
taken
from
fenfe
That
vve
mu
#.andfeeling
fo
oftenfaile, let
vs
not
be perfwaded by
Satans
not
con(lude
tentati ons,to
beleeue
that
we
are
deflitute
of
faith,and other
that
vve
hare
'fannhf ing
graces
ofGods
holy
fpirit,becaufe at
fometitnes
not
faith,Ge
catrfe
vvc
doe
1
c.çu
:ot
fen(bly
difcerne
them
for
though
now
our
fouler
(ée.rne.
01011b.--
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