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Answ. 2 Secondly: If you would not be discouraged in this Condition, Take heed of letting fall any despairing, despondent, unbelieving Speeches; for the more busy, Satan is about you, in the time of Desertion, the more tedious will that time be, and more full of Discouragements. Now look, as it is with some Dog; if you let fall a Bone, or Bread, or Meat, the Dog stays, and waits still; but when he finds none, he goes his ways. So it is with Satan, when a man is in a Desertion, he comes, and saith he, this is a time for me to work, who am the first-born Child of Darkness; and this soul being in the dark, it is a fit time for me to work upon him; there he stands, and if any despairing, despondent Speeches do fall from you, Satan stays the longer; but if none fall, he goes away the sooner. Have you therefore been, or are you under any Desertion, and let fall any bones for Satan? look back, and gather them all up again, gather up these crumbs again, and mourn over them; and take heed for the time to come; for the more of these fall, the longer Satan stays, and the more you will be discouraged.

Answ. 2 Secondly: If you would not be discouraged in this Condition, Take heed of letting fal any despairing, despondent, unbeleeving Speeches; for the more busie, Satan is about you, in the time of Desertion, the more tedious wil that time be, and more full of Discouragements. Now look, as it is with some Dog; if you let fal a Bone, or Bread, or Meat, the Dog staies, and waits still; but when he finds none, he goes his waies. So it is with Satan, when a man is in a Desertion, he comes, and saith he, this is a time for me to work, who am the first-born Child of Darkness; and this soul being in the dark, it is a fit time for me to work upon him; there he stands, and if any despairing, despondent Speeches do fall from you, Satan staies the longer; but if none fall, he goes away the sooner. Have you therefore been, or are you under any Desertion, and let fal any bones for Satan? look back, and gather them al up again, gather up these crums again, and mourn over them; and take heed for the time to come; for the more of these fall, the longer Satan staies, and the more you will be discouraged.