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Confolattons
for
fnch
Ar
doe
not
feele
their
faith.
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yeelding vnto him the whole glorie and
praife
of
their
fai-
uation.
What
therefore
is
to bee done
in
fuck a cafe
?
furelie
they are
not
vtterlie
to
bee difcouraged,
nor to
fuffer
them
-
felues
to
Gnke
into the
guile ofdefperation
;
but
as
the
fenfe
and feeling
oftheir
(+ate
ought
to humble
them
vilder
Gods
hand,
and
to mooue them
to
enter
into
a
due
examination
ofthemfelues, and to
a
ferious
repentance for
their times,
fo
they
mu(}
take
comfort
vnto
themfelues, and prop vp
their
declining
faith,by
calling
to
mind former
times
where-
in the
Lord hath
!hewed
his
merciful'
and gratious counte-
nance
vnto them, and wherein
they,
in
token ofthankful-
neffe
haue glorified
God,
by their holineffe and righteouf-
neffe
oflife.
An
example
whereof
wee haue in the
Prophet
baurd, Pfal.77. who
being
grieuoufly
affli
&ed,could
not re-
PfaIm.:77.
ceiue
inhisfoule
any
true comfort;
for
howfoeuer
hee
did
thrke
vpon
the
Lord,
yet
bee
Was
flill
troubled,
and
though
he
prayed
vnto
him
yet
his (pirit
rrar full
of
anPuir7>.
What
helpe
did
he
then
find in
this
his
prefent
diftreffe
?'
He telleth
vs
in
the
fifth
verte
:
Then
(faith
he)T
confidered
the
daies
of
old,and
the.yeeres
of
ancient time
;
I
called to
reme'rbrance
my
fong m
the
¡iQht,
namely,his
Tongs
of
thank
fgiuing, whereby
he
had
praifed
God
for
his
great
benefits
:
and
veri
i
I.
i
remembred
the
workes
o
f
the Lord,
certainelie
I
remembred
thy wonders
or
old.
So
the holy
man
lob
apprehending
and
conceiuing
of
lob
31.
Godas
ofhis
enemie,in refpeeì
ofhis
prefent
fenfe
and
fee
-
ling,and being
mooued by
his
friends
to doubt ofhis
graces,
which hee had receiued,and
to
condemne
himfelfe
for
an
hy-
pocrite,comforteth himfelfe,and
irengtheneth.
his
faith in
the
midde(}
ofall
thefe
grieuous tentations,by calling to
his
remembrance,his
finites
of
faith
and works offan &ification,
which
he had difcerned
in
himfelfe in
former
times,-
as
ap-
peaeth,
chap.3
i.
Whofe
example
if
the children
of
God
in like
difire(fe
will-
föllow, how miferable
foeuer
they
are
in
their
prefent
fenfe
and ,feeling, yet
they
may
receiue
veto
themfelues comfort,becaufe
Gods
gifts and calling
are
with-
out repentance.
But
here
Satan will
further óbie&
that wee
are
not
onelie
.sect2.
without
all
fenfe
and
feeling
of
faith,but
alto
that
we do
fen
-
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m
3
fibly