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Ganfolations
for
f
into
as
doe
not
fe:
le
their
fait&
he thus
conplaineth,trillthe
Loralabfent
himfelfe
for
euer?and
will he
Phew
no
more
fauour?
8
.
Is
his mercie
clean
gone
for
euer?
loth
his
promife
fade
for
euerm,re
?
9.
Math
C1
od
forgot
ten
to
be
mercifull
?
bath
he
(hut
v
p
his
tender
mercier
in
di
/leafure
?
r
O.
And
I
faid
this
is
my
death,
&c.So
PÍai.88.14.
Lord,
irhy
doef
thou reieil
my
foule,
and
hidefL
thy
facefrorn
me
?
r
5.
I
am
orfli.,
1ed,and
at
the point
ofdeath;
from
my
youth,
I
fuf
fer
thy
terrors
doubting
o
fmy life. 16.
'Thine
indignation
goe
otter
me,and thy
feare hash
cut
me
off
:The
Prophet
lereiny
likewife
being
grie-
uouílie
afflicted in
body
and mind,was
for
a
time depriued
of
the
fenfe
ofGods
loue and fauor, apprehending
nothing but
prefent miferie,and
in
(lead
of
faith,affiance
in
God,peace
of
confcience,
and
other
fan&ifying graces,
hee bewraieth
his
doubting,diffidence and impatiency,
turfing
the
day
ofhis
birth,
&
euen
the
man
that brought
firfl
newel
hereofto
his
father,
and wifhing
that
his
mother
had bin
his
graue,or her
wocnbe
a
perpetual) conception
:
as
appeareth
Icr.2o.14.1
5.
&c.The
like maybe
fai
d
ofthe
Ap oflle
Peter,for
where,I pray
you,
was
the
fenfe
and feeling
of
his
faith,
affiance
in
God,
zeale
ofhis
glory,
loue,
feare, and
other
fáne`tifying
graces,
when
as
he
fhamefully denied
his
mailer, yeaforfwore him
with bitter
curfìng
?and
yet
we
muff
either
grant that
Peter
at
this time
was
indued
with
a
liuelie
faith,or
els
that-the
pray-
er
ofour
:Lord
and Sauiour
Iefus
Chrifl
was
not effecuall,for
bee had prayed
for
him
that
his
faith
might not
faile,as
ap-
peareth,Luk.22.3
2.
But what fhould
I infifl
in
the
examples
of
thefe the feruants
of
God,
feeing
the alone
example
of
Chrifl
himfelfe
is
fufficient
to
cleare
this point;for
though
he were
the onely
begotten,
and heft
belouedSonne
of
his
heauenlic
father,yct
in
his
owne
fenfe
and
feeling
hee
appre-
hendeth
nothing but Gods
wrath and grieuous difpleafure,
and lamentablie complaineth
as
a
man
abandoned
and call
out ofall
loue
and.fauour;,L_i4y
God,my
God,why
haft thou for
-
ftlen
mee
:
which wordes fhew
both
Chrifis
affiance
insGod,
and
his
prefent
apprehendion in his
fenfe
and
feeling
;
for
in
refpeCt
of
his
affiance
and trot!
in
God
hee
calleth
him
hill
his
God;
in
ref}
eCt
of
his
fenfe
and feeling hee complai-
ncth
that,hee
is
forfaken.
Whereby
it
is
manifefl,
that
a
man
nláR,,