The Soul's Conflict with Itself

Again, God will have salvation so open, that it shall appear in the countenance ¹of his people, the more to ⟨p. 471⟩daunt and vex the enemies. Cainish hypocrites hang down their heads, when God lifts up the countenance of their brethren; when the countenance of Gods children clears up, then their enemies hearts and looks are cloudy. Jerusalems joy is Babylons sorrow. It it with the Church & her enemies as it is with a balance, the scales whereof when one is up the other is down. Whilst Gods people are under a cloud, carnal people insult over them, as if they were men deserted of God. Whereupon they hang down their heads, & the rather, because they think that by reason of their sins, Christ & his Religion will suffer with them. Hence Davids care was, that the ²miseries of Gods people should not be told in Gath. The chief reason why the enemies of the Church gnash their teeth at the sight of Gods gracious dealing, is, that they take the rising of the Church, to be a presage of their ruin. A lesson which Hamans wife had ³learned.

Againe, God will have salvation so open, that it shall appeare in the countenance ¹of his people, the more to ⟨p. 471⟩daunt and vexe the enemies. Cainish hypocrites hang downe their heads, when God lifts up the countenance of their brethren; when the countenance of Gods children cleares up, then their enemies hearts and looks are cloudy. Ierusalems joy is Babylons sorow. It it with the Church & her enemies as it is with a ballance, the scales whereof when one is up the other is downe. Whilst Gods people are under a cloud, carnall people insult over them, as if they were men deserted of God. Wherupon they hang down their heads, & the rather, because they think that by reason of their sins, Christ & his Religion will suffer with them. Hence Davids care was, that the ²