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Some general directions for a comfortable walking with God delivered in the lecture at…Some generall directions for a comfortable walking with God deliuered in the lecture at…
Some general directions for a comfortable walking with God delivered in the lecture at Kettering in Northamptonshire, with enlargement: by Robert Bolton ...Some generall directions for a comfortable walking with God deliuered in the lecture at Kettering in Northhamptonshire, with enlargement: by Robert Bolton ...
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Edmund Weaver, 1626London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Edmund Weauer, 1626
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Though thou exalt thy self as an Eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence I will bring thee down, saith the Lord.
Though thou exalt thy selfe as an Eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the starres, thence I will bring thee downe, saith the Lord.
But now on the other side, spiritual Joy, which springs out of the wells of salvation, and is a ray and representation, as it were, of the Sun of Righteousness, and that eternal Fountain of soundest and lasting comfort, is all sweet, pure, shining, calm, hearty, unspeakable, utterly free from those fore-grumblings and reluctations of conscience; envenomed mixtures and slavish apprehensions; after-repentings, stings and melancholic dumps: though it may be assaulted, and something dimmed with some doubts, distrusts and weakness of degree, by reason of our unglorified state of mortality; yet in respect of its creation, substance, truth, and blissful issue, it is a very glimpse of heavenly glory, a pure taste of the rivers of Life, and first fruits of everlasting joys. Thus the blessing of the Lord maketh ⟨p. 175⟩the heart spiritually merry with incomparable sweetness, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
But now on the other side, spirituall Ioy, which springs out of the wells of saluation, and is a ray and representation, as it were, of the Sunne of Righteousnesse, and that eternall Fountaine of soundest and lasting comfort, is all sweete, pure, shining, calme, hearty, vnspeakeable, vtterly free from those fore-grumblings and reluctations of conscience; enuenomed mixtures and slauish apprehensions; after-repentings, stings and melancholike dumps: though it may be assaulted, and something dimmed with some doubts, distrusts and weakenesse of degree, by reason of our vnglorified state of mortalitie; yet in respect of its creation, substance, truth, and blissefull issue, it is a very glimpse of heauenly glory, a pure taste of the riuers of Life, and first fruits of euerlasting ioyes. Thus the blessing of the Lord maketh ⟨p. 175⟩