- Jjought him but I couldnot ~ndhim 1 Z't s experience of his love to ravHhment ~ le is,that SE R. XI. afterwards they may have recourfe ro that love of God then felt to fupport themfelves ; and wichall to fi:irre,up endeavours and hope ; that finding it not fo well wirh them now, as formerly it bath been,by comparing fiarewirh fiate,de- Hof.z..7. fires may be ftirred up to be as they were, or ra· rher better. · And as ·the remembrance of former experi– ences fervesto excite endeavour, fo to fiirre up Hope. I hope ir tball be as it was, becaufe God is Immutable. I change,but Chrifi alters nor,rhe inferiour elementary world clunges, here is faire wearher and foule, but the Sunne keeps his perpetUJll courfe ; and as in the glomiefl: day that ever was, there was light enough to make it day, and to dill:inguifh it from night (though the Sunne.did not fhine:) So in the moft difconfo- , i late fl:ate of a Chrill:ian foule, there is light I enough in the foule, to !hewthat theSunofRigh- Pf.tl•xxz..4. teotifnejfe is there,and that Chrill: bath fhined up- ·~~· on the fouie, that it is day with the foule and not .night. . 5. And learne when we are in this condition 1 to wait Gods Ieifure, for he hath waited ours. j lit is for our good,to prepare usforfurtherblef– /fings, to rnonifie and fubdue our corruptions, to \ inlarge the c.1pacity of the foule, tharthe Lord a~f~nts ~i~felfe, the!efore Bernard faith well, I'Itbt acctdtt, &c. ChrtJt comes and goes away for \our good; when he withdrawes the fence of his ~ love,the foule thereupon isfi~etched with defire, , . T 3 that. •
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