Of turning from our e1Jill11ayes. raged: be impornmate with God, andhe cannot at Ieogth but give thee the vi~?ry ; for as Chrifl: faies, if yQu aske hread, will begtveyonaScorpion l if you aske grace, will hegiveyouup to your lu.frs ~ , he will not. It is Gods manner to let his children {hive, and to overcome in the end. lttco!J wrejlltd . aOnight till the dawning I/ the d~ty; · and thenhe let him have the vitl:ory, and bleft him. Th~· Lord · fuffers us to !hive long ; but thi.s is our comfort, that wehaveapromife; that ifwe relift the Devill, he lhall fly. And whereas youwill fay I find it not : Themeaningof the promife is not, as if StJfhAt~ iliould fly away as thou 1houldeft heare of him nomore, or that thy lufis 1hould never returneup... on theeagaine; but that ifthou wilebeperempt<l– .ry, thou lhalt ·have the victory in that particular / . combate. As:ifwhen thou haft a feavcr, ifone come6 and tells thee~ take fuch a receipt and thou lhalt bee cured ; his meaning is not, that thou 1halc fobecured, as never to have ~Feaver againe, but that thou ilialc be healed for the prefent : fo in that particular combate, thou 1hale have the · victory. · · 0h ! but Iam frill haunted, and_ Idoe 11ot over"' come~ o~jel1. .A»[w~ J / · Strive conftantly and confcionably, and though Anfw,. it cloth returneagainand again, the Lord cakes no· tice of all thy paines and warring againfl: it : that· which hefayesto~he ChurchofEpbefm, Revel. l. z. may beapplied to this,!know thyworkes, and thy labour : though thy corruptionsbetoo thong · i R for .. ·- . - . -
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