Propositions

56 To one that complained of hardness of heart, he said; you must wait for comfort, and know, that you can now no more judge of your self, than a man sleeping can judge of things which he did waking: or a man wandering in the dark, can discern of bright colours; who though environed with fresh colours, and yet for want of light, can have no use of his eyes, nor pleasure in the objects; so ⟨image 15⟩you have done great good things whilst God gave you a waking heart to put them in practise, and the light of his spirit, to discern his graces in you: though now, you have neither the sight nor sense of them: even as he which sleepeth whilst he waked, might do excellent things, and yet now, neither he himself knoweth of them, nor another can discern them in him: and this is the thing that deceiveth and disquieteth many; they look for that remiss in them, which they had when Gods spirit wrought in the sweetest and fullest measure in them: and because there is some intermission of the work of new birth, they think it is a flat amission in them of the spirit of God; but as it is a token of a mind toe presumptuous, and insituated in time of dead security, to persuade our selves still of that safety, in having those graces which some times we had: so it is a sign of a mind abject, and toe much despairing; to think that because we have not even present feelings of these joys, glorious and unspeakable which we have had; therefore ⟨image 16⟩we never had them heretofore, or that we shall never have them again hereafter.

56 To one that complained of hardnes of heart, he saide; you must waite for comfort, and know, that you can now no more judge of your selfe, than a man sleeping can judge of things which hee did waking: or a man wandering in the dark, canne discerne of bright colours; who though environed with freshe colours, and yet for want of light, can haue no vse of his eies, nor pleasure in the objects; so ⟨image 15⟩you haue done great good things whilst God gaue you a waking hearte to put them in practise, and the light of his spirit, to discerne his graces in you: though nowe, you haue neither the sight nor sence of them: even as he which sleepeth whilst hee waked, might doe excellent things, and yet now, neither he himselfe knoweth of them, nor another can discerne them in him: and this is the thing that deceiveth and disquieteth many; they look for that remisse in them, which they had when Gods spirite wrought in the sweetest and fullest measure in them: and beeause there is some intermission of the worke of newe birth, they think it is a flat amission in them of the spirit of God; but as it is a tokē of a mind toe presumptuous, and insituated in time of dead securitie, to perswade our selues stil of that saftie, in having those graces which some times wee had: so it is a signe of a minde abject, and toe much dispairing; to think that because wee haue not even present feelings of these joyes, glorious and vnspeakable which we haue had; therefore