---~-------------------- ]ammy B'elo,ed~·, SaJ..XIX. where thefe wotds are fpoken in truth, that I am ChriRs, . there is neceffarily implyed, I will owne him and his caufe for ever and ever. Hehat hmarried me for ever and ever, there. 1 fore if I hope to have interdl in him for com– fon for ever and ever, I mutt be ftJre toyeeld my fdfe- tohim for ever aBd ever, and fiand for his caufe in all oppofitions againfl: all enemies what1 foever. Thefe and fuchlike places in Scripture I run paraiell wirh this in thetexr,Iammy Befo,veds andmy Beloved i5 mine, not onely holding in the p~rfen, but in the caufe of Chrifl:. Every mm hopes his God wiiJ lland for him ag1infl: the Devill whoaccufeth us daily : If we will have 1 Chrifl: to ftand for us, and to be an Advocate to 1 pl~ad our caufe ·(as he doth)in Heaven~ we mull: j refolve ro fl:and (or him againfl: all eQemies, he- 1 retickes, f~ hifmacic~es, perfecutors whatfoever, I that we \Vdl walke 10 rhe name ofour God, for ever and ever. ~ f2.!!!E But when the cafe is not thus wi rh us, and that neither we can feele comfort from Chrifi, nor have this affuranceofhis love to us,what il1tmld ,we judgeof fuch -: So!. I We ihould not wonder to fee poore foules diThat we fhauiJ frempered when theyare in fpirituaHdefertions 1 ;:: Jift:~;;r 10 confidering ho~ r.h~ Spoufe cannot endu:erhc inJeftrtion. abfence ofChnft ,tt 1s out oflove;therfore m the. de~pefl: plunge !he bath this in her moutb)my Be– loved. Therefore let us not judge amiffe of our felves o1· others., when we are impatient in this - --- kind. .Bur 1 1
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