412 TheSoulet effeEivallsaing toChrift. my heart is very well quietednow; and h:s trou- ble is over, and his temptation isgone, yet hee is no fooner gone from thecongregation, or from the place ofconference, but hee is the fameman that he was before, Dill doubting ofGods love, and quarreling with himfrlfe and his owne comfort ; and the fault was here,heeonely tooke a fnatch and away : but remember this, thefame promife that yc u heard in thepublike, keepe it, and be ever uppingof it; I confeffe,faithhe, my heart was cheered, andwhen I heard fuch aMini- fter preach,and Inch a Chriftian pray,! was excee- dingly comforted, and had tweet al3'urance of Gods love,but now all isgone; the fault is your owne : for ifyou would c'eave ro the promife,it would doe you as muchgood in the private,as in the publike; it would comfort you at one time as well as at another : many times it thus befals us Minitters,when wepreachofconfolation, and when weeprayand conferre,wee thinke that wee arebeyondall trouble, but by and by we are full of feares,and troubles, and forrowes, becaufe wee take nor full contentment in the promife, wee drinke not a deepe draught of it: therefore rake heedofthere two rhings,whereby poore Chrifti- ans are marvelloufly couzened ; Fir ft, takeheed ofattendingto theparties of temptations,andof makinga purfuit of every temptationof the De- vill;ifyouwill lifters to his char,he will makeyou forget all your comfort, for the Devil' carts in a bone ofdiffenrion, and we fnarle at it, and party withhim about it, and fo lofe the comfort of the promife;
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