480 Tbbe Soutes efeEuallcalling toChrift. which haft fpoken trouble and terrour to thine owne heart 5 asin the 1 Cor. 2.12. Wee havenot re- ceived theSpirit ofthe world, but thespirit which r ofGod, that we might know the things that are given to su ofGod ;God not only gives atgood things, but he bath given hsr spirit, that wemay know, that it f he whichbathgiven ru thefegood things. Thirdly, and Jail! , this temporary belecver falles and fats fiiort upon this ground alfo 5 I told you the foule is effelually perfwaded to refI upon the freegrace ofGod, and to fall into the armes of his merde g now the temporary (ailes alto in the worke ofreiying ; that which feeds his hope, and Rayes his heart, is nothing elfebut the tafle and prefent fweetnefl'e whichhe had in the promife; he relyes upon the taie and fente which bee had by the lip of the promife; andhence it is, that whcn the tafle is gene, the fweetnefe of the .prefent pufh is gone, that then therecornes trouble and forrow more l: :eavie,and more able tovex him, than all the other was to comfort him; then beebegins to repent himof his match, and thinkes that all his proft (Bon l will not quit colt ; now,wheñ that rafle and that comfort which he had,faileshim,and forrowand affliaions come and overpowers his fweetneffe and comfort, then heefais away : but a man that path true faving faith, refis himCelfe not upon the tafle and fente of this good, but upon the good- nefl'e ofGod in the promife, and upon the all - fuflieiency ofGod in the promife; he feeth more good in the promife, than in all the contentsof the
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