AndmJ Belo"Vedis mine. - But for amore full anfwer, in want of feeling of the love of Chri!l: in regard of that meafure we would (for there is never altogether a want 'I of. feeling) there .is fo mcch as keeps from def1 paue alway; yet 1f we carry a co~ftam love to- i wards him, mourne to him and feeke after him, I as the Church here: 1fthe defire of our foules be after him, that we make .after him in rhe ufe of meanes, and are willing tO' fpe3ke of him, as the Church here, . feele or feele not wee are his, and bee will at length difcov.er himfelfe to us. Let fuch drooping fpirits confider, that as he · will not be long from us, nor wholly : fo it f'hall not be for our difadvantage that he retires ar all, 425 } S . I B R.XIX. I his abfence at length will end in a fweet difcovery of himfelfe more abund~ntly then before, cau(er wEv he abfents himfdfe for our good, to make us O,otl abftntr more humble ·and warchfull for the time to t~m{;Jjr!~m come, more pittifull to others, more to prize our 1 former condition, to jufiifie the wayes of God 1 more firittly, to walke with him, to regaitlet~at [fweetcommunion whichbyour negligence and I fecurity we lofi:, when weare thus prepared by 1 his abfence, there enfues a morefatisfyingdifcovery ofhimfelfe then ever before. But wh~n is the time that he comes-: Compare whin ufiu~Uy · this with the fmmer Chapter, he comes after chrift rerar~er I . . t l · h Ch h . d c afm Je[ertzon ~ng wamn~ o: urn, t e urc waltc ror to the jOule, hlm,andwatted m the ufe ofallmeanes,fhe runs r to the Watchmen, and theA enquires after him \ .of the daughters ofIer~~>falem, after this fue finds him. ·
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