The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

2. When the soul hath been upon the stormy Sea of temptations and desertions; hath long laboured under the sense of Gods withdrawings and absence from the soul. And Christ returns again, breaking the dark and thick cloud, and shining into the soul. Who can then express the warmth, the comfort, the revivings, the holy heats and flames of love and affection to Christ.

2. When the soul hath been upon the stormy Sea of temptations and desertions; hath long laboured under the sense of Gods withdrawings and absence from the soul. And Christ returns again, breaking the dark and thick cloud, and shining into the soul. Who can then expresse the warmth, the comfort, the revivings, the holy heats and flames of love and affection to Christ.

You see how it was with Job. I have heard of thee with the hearing of the ear: But now mine eyes see thee. And certainly the sight of his beauties did take him: those eyes which saw him were like a burning-glass to the heart, to kindle the flames and fervours of holy affections towards him again.

You see how it was with Job. I have heard of thee with the hearing of the ear: But now mine eyes see thee. And certainly the sight of his beauties did take him: those eyes which saw him were like a burning-glasse to the heart, to kindle the flames and fervors of holy affections towards him again.

You see how it was with the Church, Cant. 3.4. Christ had withdrawn himself: She makes inquiry after him, but could not hear of him. At last after all her trouble, Christ appears to her soul. And you may read there, how exceedingly her heart was taken with his return. I found him whom my soul loveth; I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my Mothers house,