"--~---------~::-;._...___.......__...,...__(, ', 4l6 \___O_F_T_· _H~E------- lwemuGtruO:. by ·the Holy <:hofl) .yet. wh~n 'he.hath good iGodspromitc gr,omtd,and fatth thus With htmfelfe, Yet for lchoughwe } allthi,, I will trufi .him, I have his fure Word · . wantpeace. for ir, I have his promife, I know that Heaven . ; Thefealcof Gods fp irit. , Epheol •l 3• and earthJha/1pa(Je, rather than any promife of his !hall palfe. Now when the Lf)rd feerh a man beleeving thus, and trull:ing him upon his bare Word, then the Lorcfgoes a frep fur– ther with him, and fealcs rhe fame things to him with thefpirit ofpromife, (as I fhewed be– foreourofEphefr. tj. In whom after you te. le.eved; yote werefoaledwith thefpirit ofpromife) when youput toyourftale that God i5 true, God then comes and puts to his feale, he gives you thefpirit<ofpromifc, and alfures you thatit is : fo, that-is·, he cloth by his owne Spiritfay to a mansfoule, I am thy falvation. My Bd~ved, thisis a certaine exprdiion of the Holy Ghoft to the foule ofa man, that we knowdot how to .. ~xpreffe toyou: therefore it is called the hid-. den .Mam~ab: it i~called awhiteflone; withanerp nt~111e;written in it,that noman lmowts 6ut he that hath it,acertainemanifefiarion of chriftto the . foulc, acertaine divine light,. a certaine fecret token of his Jove, whereby-chrifo manifells ) · ,himfe!fe to the foule ofman, rhat which the Scriptures call fopping with him; I wiU come Rev.·3. . Andfopwithhim; Rev.j.&Ioh.I4·~I. I andmy Ioh• 1 4·u · . Father will&omeJ iJ him, 4<ndI will mani(eft my . ·•wne felfe .unto him; this is the.witneffe ofthe f !Spirit, that w~en the witrreffe of our owne . fpiritis fomewhat obfcure, we may then fay, Lur
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