12, ~he Churches Marriage. \ bly , with joy unfpeakeable and glorious, the flalhes of comfort are much more bright and glorious to fome then to others, and fuch fpe.. ciall wime{fes of t~e holy Ghoft are very rare, and ·difpenfed to us for fome fpedall purpofes, commonly after fome .gr.eat humiliation or prayer, or to prepare us for fome great enter– prize,or fome fpeciall conflict, they are even as the apparitions to .Abraha~, and lacoli, andPaul, were, 4Els ~ 3. 1 I. Be ofgoodC6ur•geBaul.,thlumufl heAre rvitnejleefmeat Reme,&t. fo wherihNYasat Corinth, Paul be of good comfort; 1am with thee. A8. 18. 9· All thefe were on fpeeiall occa- . fions : fa I fay there are fom~ {peciall w.itnef– les &ftbe holy Ghoft,wsen the holy Ghafl fpeaks evidently, and thefe are difpenfed to us accor.. ding to the goo~ pleafure of God, and common. Iy it -is added ;for .fome fpeciall purpofe: ·now I fay, ,not that every _one bath this·kind oftefi:imo.. ny ,'butevery one bath fo much witnelfefrom the holy Gholl: as dotb uphol&bis fpirir, that Chrifi is willing to match with him,that he bath or may have interell: in him , and in all the priviledges of his death; this I fay, every onehath moreor lelfe, :,::, );,; although thofe fpeciall degrees of the evid~nt fpeaking of the holy Gholl:, aredifpenfed butto fome, and to thofe that have it bu~ for a fpecia11 time :this is the ·firft thing. · ··. · ·· · · The fecond thing thou art toenquire into (if . thou wouldeft ·know ifthere beany fuch match, betweene ChrHl: J efus and thee, ) what thy ownc .. ~confent hatb·beene and is, which herein is not in words
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