/ -----------------~~--~~~-------------- ]ammy Be/o--peds. 413 } ·-- ligent (as we hrare) ~nd partly for the rime to come, that Chrift by his eftrangemC'Ut might fweeten his comming againe, howfoever there may be firangendfe for a time, yet Chri!l: will remrne againe to his Spoufe. ---..:... I SnR.XIXJ . ! \ The Ufdhould be, not onely far comfort, to 1 V[e. 1 • flay tM in fochtimes, b:tt to teach tU lzkeJi'ife to wait i Confo'ario~ · to and nerr ·er ffi'Vt over · If the Cht>rchh~d oiven fupp ,rt us mde- ., ~ • • ' •· t> firtzo1J. over here, !he had not had {uch gr:acious mani– fdbtions of ChrHl: to her : learne hence therefore this ufe,to wait Gods leifure. God will wait • to doe good to them that wait on him : If we IC1 ·3°·i8, wa~t his leifure, he will wait an opporrur.ieyof doing good to us : \Vhen God [eemes notto anfwer our prayers, let us yet \vait, we f11all not lofe by our tarrying, he will wait to doe us good. . In the next phceobferve :1ft er tnts temporary defenion, Chrifl: vifics his Church with more abunda11t comfort then ever before. No~.v the Church cannot hold, My_Beloved is That we Io(e · dl h' d Ch '11 ,.. h. Id b nothing by oar mtne.an ~~,, IS, an . rll~ Cannot. 0 ' ~t lar~ene.J[e ofaf• . fals toto a.-large commendanon of h1s Spoufe }eCffontoChriJf b:tcke a a :tine· as fhe was laroe in his commendafor hu .remrne . o . ' . 0 d l h to oufr ~~ exteettons., [o he1s largemhers, an more arge, e dingour!. will have the lafl: word.; therefore learneby this experience~ that all things worke together for the beflto them that /ovcGDd.:all things. Wha~evill ~ I evill; whyeven fin turnes to their humiliation, Rom.S.2.S. yea & defertion(thofe fpirituaH ils)turns to their" good; for Chrift feemes to for fake for awhile that he ·may comeafter with moreabundance of com- ------~~--~~~~------~---------------- r l
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