Pletíouo faít13. r37z !levers Prayer, and bear witnefs to this Or- dinance. Secondly, He experiments it in his Accefr tá' God. The Devils, who are in Chains of Dark - nefs, can make no approaches to God ; there is an unpaffable gulf between them and him. It is forted of a German Nobleman, that there Was awed before him a Play of the five Wife and five Fooli(h Virgins; the Wi(è were St.141a- ry, St.Catbarine, St.Barbará,St.Dorothy, St.ldlsr- garet, to thefe carne the Fooli(h for Oyl;that is, as the Actor interpreted it, That they would intercede with God for their admiffìon into Heaven ; They knocked, and wept, and in fiantly prayed, but the Wife denied, and bid them be gone : At this fight the Nobleman was afloni(hed, crying out, What is the Chri- rtian Religion, if none of the Saint, will bear and intercede for us? And loon after he died of an Apoplexy. 'Tis fad being (hut out from the pretence of God. The Believer is, as they fay of the Rhodians, in f le pofitus. Ft: is nigh unto God, and bath his Religion proved to him, in that he bath 7ti,ociayro öa, accefs or manuduaion Unto God. The way into the Holy of Holies i, open through the veil of Chri is fÍefh ; and the Holy Spirit doth condu& him in thi- ther. He may come 7 4nQh tç, with bold- nefr unto the throne of Grace; and there utter all his mind, as a Child Both to his Father. David, in the 13th Pfalm; begins as if God were totally abfent, How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, for ever'? How ling wilt thou hide C c tb
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