. - ___1-.i~ / /3tJt "'! Be/o-pet/ . .' SBJt.IX. · er,ce beawakenedand opened,thatitappeares in its right colours. , · s. And thenagain, Thnt we may know what Chrift ::;: :::~~:Y fujferhe~, tthndub!jerw,e;ht (O~#j' in tfihe (en_ce ofGods ®bat ehrift 111r11t 1n t ea 'Jence o; ·u J avo11r or a ftme. This fiJ.fftrei. • · the humane Naturecouldne;ver have fi1ffered, if his divinity had withdrawne it felfe. ·Now a11 of us muft ftp ofthat cup whereof Chrifi: drankthe dregs,having ataft what it is ~o have God rofor– fake us~ For the moll: part, thofebeleevers who live any time (efpedally thofe of great par~s) God deales thus with, weaker Chrill:iaAs he is more indulgent unto ; at fuch times weknowof ~whatufe a Mediatour is, andhowmi1crableour condition wete -without fuch an one, bGth to have borne and overcome the wrathofG0d for us, which burden he could never have under– gone it, but had funke under it,butfor the Hypo- .ft atica!lunion. · . Vftt. Let us ·not therefore cenfure any ChrilHan~ Not to ce~'fi~re when we find rhat their comfe hath beengood ~!e~~~~~~tand gracio~s ;- yet notwithfiandi.ng they feeme c6mfgrt. to wan'tcomfort, let us not wonder ;lt them, as,if God badutterly forfaken them : Indeed fome– times they thinke themfelves forfaken, ·and the world thinkes d1em fo too , that God n– gards them not:Theyare people of norefpetl ei– ther toGod et toothers;Jsy()l.l pnve the Church - Pfat 44 9 • . in the Pfalmes com.p~~lining1 as if God had forfaken,them, fo they thioke themfelvesfor{aken, and the world thinks them fo ~o , and negleds them ; thcref~re in fodoingwe iliall cenfure the --~==--~~~~-=~~~~~------~gen~ ,
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