--.AndmyBelo"Pedts mine. it is not rneetthat' the Church fhoul.d go to Hea. S B 11..xrx. 1 ven another way. Then again~, all this ~s but to faf11~on the To (afl;ion ber 1 Spoufe to be hke to Chnft, ,but to brmg the . tobetike cb,ift • Church and Chrift nearer together) thar is all the hurt they doe, to drive the Church nearer toChrift then before, Chri£1: is as neare to his Church as ever in the greateR affiittions by his . · Spirit,Chrift cryes out on thecroffe~My Godamy ~t~~ re::~~ God why hAJI thON·forfaken me? It IS a frrang~ [ent iu aff!;CU– voice,that God thou Idbe his God, and yet not- en,yet le u ne- .· hll d' r: r r. k h' » G d ' ver more gra . Wit uan · mg teem~ to IOr1a e 1m. vUt · o W3S cioujly ,.e 4 rer never more his God thenat that prefent; indeed thm rile•. ' he was not his ,God in regard of fome feelings that he had enjoyed in former times, he feemed robe forfaken in regard offome fence, as Chrift feemes to forfakethe Church in regard of fome fence and feelmg~ but yet his God frill. So the Church may lay,I am thine fiill, though fhe feeme to b~ forfaken in regard offome feelings, yet the is not defert~d in regard of Gods care for fupport ofthe inward man and fafhioning ro Chrifi. The Church hath nev~r fweecer com– munion with Chrill, then under the greateft croffes ; and therefore they many times have preved the ground ofthe greateft comforts ;for I Chrift leads the Church into the wildemelfe, and then fpeaks ro her hearr,Hofea 2.14. Chrill !peaks to the heart·of his Spoufe ip the wilder- 'I'hat the[wee.. tejt Communion with Cbrijt u under thegrea· tefl crcffis. , ,ndfe, that is, in a place of no comfort, t~here are no Orchards or pleafures, but,~U difcom- ! forts,there a man mufi have it from'Heaven ifhe Ff have -----------------·--------~·-------------- ...•
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