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The
Guidance
of
the Spirit
wherein
it
confi(is.
200 all things,
and is
true,
and
is
no lye,
and
as
he
hath taught
you,abide
in
him:
It
is
received
as
promifed,
it
doth
abide
as
the
Spirit
is Said
to
do,and it
teacheth,
which
is
theproper worke
ofthe
Spirit in an
eminent manner.
4.2r.
Now
this Guidance
of
Believers
by
the
Spirit,
as
to
the particular
Truthes,
and
aetings,
confifts
in
his
putting
forth
of
a
twofold
At
of
Light,
and
Power.
Firft,
Of
Light, and
that
alto
is
twofold.
I.
Of
Beauty, as
to the
things
to
be received
or
done; he
reprefents them
to
the
foule,
as
Excellent, Comely, Defirable and Glorious, leading
us
on
irs
the
receiving
of
truth,
from
Glory to Glory,
2
Cor.2.
18.
He puts upon
every
Truth
a new
Glory,
making and rendring it defirable
to
the
foule, without
which
it cannot
be
clofed
withal],
as
not
difcovering, either fuitableneffe or
proportion unto the
minds and hearts ofinen. And
2.
By
fome
a&ua}1
elevation
ofthe
minde and underftanding
to
goc
forth unto,
and receive into it
(elfe,
the
Truth,
as
reprefented to it:
by
both
of
them,
fending
forth
Light andTruth
Pfal.
43.
3.
blowing
of
the Cloudes,
2
Pets.
rç.
and
railing up
the
day
Starre,
that
rifes in
our hearts,
Secondly,
Of
Power,
Ifa.
3 5.
6. The
breaking
forth
of
Streamer,
makes not
only
the blind
to
fee,
but the
lame to
leape,
Strength comes,as well
as
Light.
by the powring
out
of
the
Spirit on
us
:
Strength
for
the
receiving
and pra-
&ice
of
all his
Gracious
difcoveries
to
us
:
He
leader us,
not only
in
Gene-
rah',
implanting afaving Light
in
the
minde, whereby it
is
difpofed and ena-
bled
to
difcerne Spirituali things,
.
in
a
Spiritual] .manlier,
but alfoas to
Par-
ticular
Truths,
rendring them Glorious, and
Défirable, opening
the
mind
and
Underftanding
by
newbeames
ofLight,
he leades the foule irreliftably
into
ÿ
hi
the
m
receiving
of
the
truths
revealed:
which
is
the
fecond thing. we have
g.2a.
1
than only
obferve
for a
dole of
this,
one
or two
Confequences
of
the
weight
ofthis
twofold Operation
of
the
indwelling
of
Chrift.
I.
From
the
want
of
the
firft,
or
his
creating
a
new light
in
the
minds
of
men,
it
is
that
fo
many Labour in
the
fire,for
an
acquaintance with the things
ofGod,It
is
(I
fay)
a
confequence
ofit,as
darknefle
is
ofabfence
of
the
Sunne.
Many we fee
after
fundry years fpent
in
conlderable
labours and
diligence,
reading
of
m
any
bookes,
with
a
contribution
of
afliftance from
other
ufefull
flom.r.2s,22
Arts
and
Sciences,
in
the
iffiie
of
all
their indeavours,
do max
vaine in their
imaginations, having their
foolifh
hearts darkned, profeffing themfelves
wife,
they become
fooles, being
fo
farre
from
any
Sappe,
and favour,
that
they
have not
the
leaves
of
ability
in
things Divine.
Others
indeed make
fome
progreffe
in a
difèiplinary
knowledge ofDoëtrines
oftheScriptures,
and
can
accurately reafon and diftinguith
about them,
according
to the
formes,
wherein they have been exercifed,
and that to
a
great
height
of
convieri-
on
in
their
ovine
fpirits, and permanency
in
the
profeffion
they have taken
up,
But
yet
all this while
they
abide
without
any
effefuall
power
of
the
Rom.e,r;.
Truth,
conforming
and
framing their
fpirits
unto
the
likenejje
and
mould
thereof, They doe but
fee men walking
like trees:
fome
Niles
of
the
light
breake
in
upon them
which
rather
amaze,then
guides
them,they comprehend
it
not, They
fee
Spirituali things
in
a
Naturali Light,
and
prefently forget
what
manner
ofthings
they were: and
in
the
fpecies,
wherein they
are retai-
n
cor.
2.
12,
ned, they are
foolifhnefle.
23,14'
2,
From
the want
of
the latter,
itis,that
we
our
felves
are
follow
in recei=
ving
fome partes
of
Truth,
and
do
find
it
fo difficult
to
convince
others
of
fome
other
parts
of
it, which
to
us
are written with the
beames
of
the
Sunne-
Unleffe
the
Truth
it
felfe
be
rendred
a Glory
to
the. underftanding,
and the
minde