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Secondly: If your Condition herein be no other, than the condition of the Saints and People of God, then you have no just cause and reason to be discouraged in this respect. Now Psalm, 77.3, 4. saith the Psalmist there, I remembered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit was over-whelmed: Lord, (saith he, at verse 4.) Thou holdest mine Eyes watching, I am so troubled that I cannot speak: I cannot pray, I am so troubled I cannot speak. A Mother hears her child cry, and saith she, now doth this Child cry for the Breast, yet the Child speaks not a word, but the Mother knows the meaning of the child's crying, and the language of it: And doth a Mother know the language of her Child's crying? and doth not God our Father know the Language of his Child's cry, that cannot speak unto him? The Beggar that follows you for an Alms, is a Beggar, though he be dumb and cannot speak; and you say, send him away with some gift, for he follows us. So here, though your heart be shut up in Duty, yet if you can follow God, he looks upon you as a Beggar at the ⟨p. 98⟩Throne of Grace, and in due time he will serve you, and send you away with Comfort.

Seco•dly: If your Condition herein be no other, than the condition of the Saints and People of God, then you have no just cause and reason to be discouraged in this respect. Now Psalm, 77.3, 4. saith the Plalmist there, I remembred God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit was over-whelmed: Lord, (saith he, at verse 4.) Thou holdest mine Eyes watching, I am so troubled that I cannot speak: I cannot pray, I am so troubled I cannot speak. A Mother hears her child cry, and saith she, now doth this Child cry for the Breast, yet the Child speaks not a word, but the Mother knows the meaning of the childs crying, and the language of it: And doth a Mother know the language of her Childs crying? and doth not God our Father know the Language of his Childs cry, that cannot speak unto him? The Beggar that follows you for an Alms, is a Beggar, though he be dumb and cannot speak; and you say, send him away with some gift, for he follows us. So here, though your heart be shut up in Duty, yet if you can follow God, he looks upon you as a Beggar at the