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First: Because the Saints shall then be fully and finally Absolved in their own Consciences: It is true, there be some of the Saints even in this life, to whose Consciences the Spirit of God doth evidence and seal up Remission of sin; who are not only safe but sure; and possess not only the blessedness of a pardoned estate, but the comfort and assurance of that blessedness: §1nevertheless, 1. Not all the Saints; 2. Nor any, at all times; 3. Nor always in the same degree: as they have their lucida intervalla, so they have also (and more frequently) their dark times, their Eclipses as well as their Transfigurations; and no wonder, since the Sun of Righteousness himself suffered an Eclipse upon the Cross so dreadful, as forced the great Master of Astrology in Egypt to cry out, Either the God of Nature suffers, ¹or the whole frame of nature is dissolved: and caused the Lord Jesus Himself (to the just astonishment of Heaven and Earth to cry out) My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Is it any wonder then, if many of the poor Saints of God with Paul and his Ship-wracked Company, see neither Sun-light nor Star-light for many days together; and no small tempest doth often lye upon them, ²so that all hope of being saved is taken away? yea, not a few precious deserted Hemans are there, ³who from their youth up are afflicted and ready to dye, and while they suffer the terrors of God, are (even) distracted? yea, and (that which is more tremendous) their Sun (as to any observation which Standers by could make, (though very rarely) hath set in a Cloud.

First: Because the Saints shall then be fully and finally Absolved in their own Consciences: It is true, there be some of the Saints even in this life, to whose Consciences the Spirit of God doth evidence and seal up Remission of sin; who are not only safe but sure; and possess not only the blessedness of a pardoned estate, but the comfort and assurance of that blessedness: §1nevertheless, 1. Not all the Saints; 2. Nor any, at all times; 3. Nor alwaies in the same degree: as they have their lucida intervalla, so they have also (and more frequently) their dark times, their Eclipses as well as their Transfigurations; and no wonder, since the Sun of Righteousness himself suffered an Eclipse upon the Cross so dreadful, as forced the great Master of Astrology in Egypt to cry out, Either the God of Nature suffers,