rhe3oule.r eeiizaadi'calling ro Ehrift. 475. thoucome to call myfitinei to remembrance byflaying my Anne? when thee conceived that he had feene her -finnes, Thee falls out withhim : fo it is with this temporarybeleever; all the while the meale andtheoylecontinue; andwhile a Minifter will tell themofeafe, and liberty,and pròfperity, and preach fmooth things, and fawne upon them in their bafediftempers, anddaube them up, all this while the Minifters are welcome ; but if a man come to thake their hypocrite, and when they begin to fay, what, a diffembler and achea- ter, and yet aprofeffor 5 then they fay, Oh thou manofGod, art thoucome to (hake the holdof all thehope wehave ; weeare not able to endure it : it is knowne by experience that commonly fuchperfons turne the moft bitter enemies agairft that truth which formerly theyhave profefTed, and fecund to love. Thirdly, how comes it to patfe that hee falls thorr, and what wanted he?you fee hehad fome- thing like unto faith; the Saints of Godwere afelled, fo was he ; theSaints ofGodhad fome tafte ofthefweerneffe ofthe Word, fohad hee5 where is the fault then ? I anfwer, the failing was in three particulars, and they are very faire and open. Fiirft, this was thewoundof the temporary in his courte, he received the Word fuddenlyand with joy, and fo hee came not to the promife aright, but carne to juft nothing : for in Gods ordinary courfeofproceeding this is the courfe, where. } 1
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