' , · 1o2· . . Tht conjir111ing Work . fuch ·dark and fearching Trials therewith ~ fi T" ' · as ormer 1. zmes have not known f . ' Anfw: It is fi1re, _we have 'feen no- / thing, but · what n1ight have been too 'evidently looked for, and that we can ~ })r~tencl rio Want of Light h~rein, upon tnefe Grou·nds. · I. , I. That the 'Tri~ls of a Church, ·fhoulcl "~ he fuited to the Meafure of their Talent \ \ . . ·of Light, a,nd when this . ~ath been· in fame more than -ordinary Way difpen– fed, . that fame ·remarkably fearching Tinie.s·might .be. expeeceq to follow ; nor ·can it be now ftt:C,tnge to us, that .fuch ,1'1hi_ngsfa1l in with this Day, which did I ... not in.eet the Churches of Chrift at the firft Eptry. of the Reformation, ·who th€n had not fo clear Difcoveries of the Truth, and that Meafure of Confirmation ·' therein, which-bath beeh fi1ice~ · ' --·' II. That fotne unufual ·Trials, _and , Co11fliets, . in the Lord's Method ofPro- . . videnee,' fhould be fui~ed ~~fo to · t~e Greatnefs of that Work, whtch he IS · bringing forth,may be no ftrange Th~ng; · and tdfee aTime·of fuch fore W~efthngs as this, when _all Things feem to · cry; , · ·and be in Pain, as MJcah i v.· 20.- · Yea, - -~ ··· ' when _-. ( I .
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