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Confolations
for
fuch
as
doe
not
feele
their
faith.
.
5
37
affli
&ions,
that
we
cannot
difcerrie
them
for
a
time, or
but
very dimlie:
but
if
we (hall inferre
hereof that
they
are
quite
taken
from
vs,
and
that
they
cafi
forth
no
comfortable influ-
ence
on
vs,
our prefent prcferuation from
being fwallowed
vp
into vtter
deflruo`fion,
and the fpeedie
rcturne
of
woon-
ted
ioy and
confolation,
by
the
apprehenfion
of
Gods
loue
and goodneífe
towards
vs,
will euicently
Phew
that this ar-
gument taken
from
the
fenfes,
is
void
ofreafon.
Laf}ly,it
app
eareth by the
examples
of
Gods children from
time to
time,that though
they
haue ben
indued with
a
great
4hat
God
tneafure
offaith,
&
in
ahigh
degree
offauour
and loue
with
drareRchàl-
almighty
God,
yet fometimes
in
their
ovvne fenfe
they haue
dreg
haue
not
found
in
them,
in
{lead
offaith nothing
but doubting,
diffi-
at all
times
dence and
infidelities
and for
Gods
loue
&
fauour,they
haue
n
nhlbI
dd
lour,
apprehended
nothing
in
their prefent feeling,but
the
wrath-
andthe
Braces
full anger
ofGod,
and
his
grieuous
difpleafure.
Looke
vpon
of
h:s
feral
íts
the
holy
man lob,
who,
by
Gods
owne teffimonie
was
the
them*
iufte%man vpon
earth, and highly
in
Gods
loue
and
fauour,
and you fhall
find
that
fometimes
he
fheweth
in his
grieuous
of
li6tions
no
Egne
offaith,
by
grolfe
doubting,
and
in -out
-
ward appearancevtter
defpaire
of
Gods
mercy
and
loue; for
he
curfeth
the
day
of
his
natiuitie, and wìfheth that
hee
had
neuer
beenborne;
he
complaineth
that God
was his
enemy,
and had
made
him
as a
marke
whereat
he
fhot
venomed
at-
rowes;that Gods
terrors
did fight
againft him, and
that
hee
did
hide his
louing
countenance
from him.
So
the
Prophet
Dauid,a
man
accordingto
Gods
own
heart,fheweth plainly
that
fometime he
hath
no
fenfe
and feeling
of
the graces
of
Gods
fpirit in
him;
as
when
he defireth
the Lord
to
create
in
Pial.s
t.to.a
a
him
a
ele
hart,and
to
renew
aright
fpirit
within
him,
to
ref
ore
bim
to
the
toy
of
his
faluation,and
to (tablrfh
him with
his
free
fpi-
rit;
and
fometimes
he
apprehendeth
in
his
prefent
fenfe
and
feeling, in
(lead
of
Gods
loue and fauour,
nothing but
his
wrath
and difpleafure, and
therefore complaineth
as
one re-
ieaed
and forfakcn
of
God.
So
Pfa1,22.1.214y
God,my God,
Pn.2%.
s,
arse
Why
hàfl
thou
forfaken
n:r, and
art
Lb
farre
from
my
health,
and
77,7
&.
gg,s,
from
the words
o
f
my
roaring.
2.0
try
God
I
crie
by
day
but
thou
hearef
ti
not,&
in
the
night baue noaudierce.
And
Pfal.
77.7.
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