, Q€lJ~«tatt l0tttr: 2 ~ felves to each other alone)open hisheart to God where no eyes fee, or ears hear his fecret groans and tears : But further, · · 2. God will tnore fatniliarly communicate himfelf to the foul in a corner : he aliohath {omething to whifper in the believers ear,that none muft know of; and there– fore gets ir bv ·c felf: a lively embl m \vhereof we have in Jo[ephs making him(elf kzlown to his Brethren, when his bowels were working, and he coss!d not 1·ejrain himjelf, he cryed, Gc 4 5· 1 ' 2 , 3, 4· cau{e everynu:tn to go ot-st fromme.--Then he wept 11/oud, and fitid.., I am Jofeph. And, oh what endeared recipro– cal affetl:ions did work in all their breans towards each other! Juft rhus, is it betwixt our J~{tph and his bre– thren,Jefus Chr1 [ and his me1nbers ; there fiands none with him while Jefus makes hirnfelf known unto his Brethren : and though at firft they be (as it \V ere) trou– bled at his preience, yet when he fpeaks lovingly, and paffeth by former unkindneffes, and faith., Comenear unto me I pray you, then they come near, and he fa·irh convincingly, I am Jejus whom _ye fold and crucified: This melts and humbles their rocky hearts, and be-ing broken, he pours oyl into thetr troubled fpirits, and fpeaks many fweetheart-reviv&ng \Vords unto them : Then, then the child of Godhatli moi\: fweerrefrefhing incomes : When God hath allured the foul into the Wildernefs, he Hof. 2. 14. fpeaks to its heart. AWildert1efs is · ,::liV.J 1~ 1· 1 h h r, h Deftrtum, fie diftHm a o ttary pace, w ere ot er peec per Antipln. quafi lais not heard, (as the word imports:) ct~s a [tnnoru remotr1s. then fpeaks God to the foul when , men cannot fpeak to it : When menare remote, God is near at hand; yea neare£1: to help, melt, cotnfort, quicken,when men are furtheft off: Our Saviour faith ofhimfelf, 7oh. 16. 3·2. Tou le~tve me .alone, yet I a11~ ntt alqne,{Dr thl rather i1.Withme. q. d. ~hen you go C 3 away,
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