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Secondly, these being hard to flesh and blood, ¹hinder not the pleasure of a gracious heart; it is the highest improvement of all our estates that can be, the highest testimony of giving your respect to God, whereby the soul enjoys most of God all times: The Spirit of God and glory resteth upon the soul while it is enduring such things. And how opposite is thy heart, and what difference between Christs heart and thine? Christ bids you leap for joy, when you meet with such things, and you think they take away all joy.

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But we see it in experience contrary; when people come into the ways of godliness, they do not find ¹that delight and joy you speak of, their spirits are heavy, ²and lumpish, and sad.

But we see it in experience contrary; when people come into the ways of godliness, they do not finde ¹that delight and joy you speak of, their spirits are heavy, ²and lumpish, and sad.

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