407. \ 0 F THE -'-- ~member this, to difringui£h it-from all fancies .and delufions; thfs Spirit comes after you have the Water and the Bloud, afrcr you ,. are beleevers; clfcer you hav~ purged your felves, and therefore ifanyman have flalhes of· light andjoy, that wimelfe that hce hath recei– ved the promife, and that he is in the Covenant, and for all this hee have nor the things that goe The witnelfe ofGods fpi· rit is after th ~ teftimonyof blQodand water. · I beforeir, he may well take it for a delufion, faith Chrift 1 will come andfltp with him: But with whom? \Nith him that ildl: openeth to me. Ifthou open thy heart to the L(Jrd, when– foever he knockes, and eomeo; to thee. And fo, Tohim that overcomes, I willgiue @fthe hidden ()J{ifnntth. Ifthou be onetharartableto ovei·· come temptations, and unruly affecriop.s, and ftnfulllufrs,rhou mayefi: condude;itis a true re. ftimony that thou art not deceived, but if thou be one that a.rt overcome with every bafe luft, with every temptation) thou art deceived') if thou art perfwaded thou .1rt in good efbte; This is not the witneffe of the Spirir; For,i.t is to him tiJ4t overcomes . So againe, To him that loves mee, and kerpes my Commandements ,(.; ... c• . Now ifrhou be one that breakl1: the Commandements ofGod,that find efr no t that holy fire in thy brcfr, that finddl: not thy heart affectioned • ro him, and yet thou haft thefe g.reat: flafhes -of afiiirance,and thinkefr thy ll:ategood, thou de· ceivell: thy felfe, t ,heLordhathnot iliewedhim· felfe to thee,but it is adelulion; and therefore I fay,conliderit; and this is the confequentofit, tJ . . · that ·,
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