~--------~~~~~--~~~---- 1 foughe-him but I couidnot find hzm.. h1nd acloud,nay to fee one contrary in another, life in death,a calme in a fi:orme,&c. · 2. L~tbourfor 411 abfolHtt dep~naancy upon chrift with 4 poverty of fPirit in our felves,this is the end of Chrifts withdrawing himfelf~, topurge us of f~lfe·confidenceand pride. 3. Stirre up your graces,for as nature joyning with phyficke helps it to work.e and carry away the·malignant humours : fo l'>Y the remainder of the Spirit that is in us, let us fet all our graces on work untill we have carried away that that of .. fends and clogs the foule, and not finke under the burden, for this is a fpeciall time for the exerci.– fingof faith, hope, love, diligence, care, watch– fulne1fe,and fuch like graces. · And ]et llS know for our comfort, that even this conflicting condition is a good eftate. In a ficke body itis aligneoflife and health approa– ching when the humours are fUrred, fo as that a man complains that the phyfickworks.Sowhen we-take toheart our prefent condition, though wefaileand~ find not what we would, yet this will worke to the fubduing of corruption at length. It is"' jigne Dffoture vii1ory when we t:re di(content with ourprefont iUeftate. Grace will get theup,per hand, as nature doth when the hu·mors are difiurhed. 4· Againe, when we are in fuch a feeming farlorne eftate, Let tu have reoour{e to former experience. What is the reafon that God vouch– fafes his children for the moft part in the be– ginning of their conve~fion (in tbe\r firCll_ove) •-----------------------~----------e_x~p_er_le_n__ ce.
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