215 aJ, filpernatural refrefhment and joy unto our fouls. Yea, in ordinary cafes it is impoffibie that believers {hon!d ha\·e a real pro_~"?efl o( JJ.is G!o~y V at any time, but that it will in tome meafure affeLt their hearts With a fenfe of his love, which is the fprii1g of all confolati"on in them. In the exercife of Faith on the difcoveries of the Glorv of Cbrifi: made unto us in the Gofi)el, no man fh~11 ~ ver totally want fuch intimations of his Love, yea, fuch effufions·of it in his heart, as fha11 be a living fpring of thole f!:.>iritual refrefhments, 'fob. 4· r 4· Rom. 5· 5· When therefore we lofe thefe things as unto a fenfe of them in our fonls, it is evident that the Lord Ct-iifr is withdrawn>and that we do not behold his Glory. BUT I cannot here avoid anotber fhorr digreffion. There are thole by whom all rhefe things are derided -as difl:empered fancies and imaginations. Yea·, Inch things have been fpoken and writ. ten of them, as comain a virtual renunciation of the Gofpel, the P')Wers of the wor\d to come and the whole work of the Holy Ghoft as the comforter of the Church. And hereby all real emercourfe between the Perfon of Chri(f, an l the fouls of them that do believe, is utterly overthrown ; reducing all Religion to an outward fhew and a pageantry, fitter for a fcage, than that Temple of God which · is in the minds of men. According unto the fenrimenrs of rhele prophane {cofj'ers, there ·is no filch thing as the ]heading abroad of the love rf God in our hearts ~y the Holy Ghoft; nor as the ?Vitnej]ing of the fpirit of God with our fpirits, that u;e are the children rf . God; from which the[e fpirirual joys and refrefhl"> 4 ments
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