Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

WE are like him in the Parable of the Prophet that spake unto Ahab, who having one committed unto him to keep, affirms that whilst he was busy here and there, he was gone. Christ commits himself unto us, and we ought carefully to keep his presence; I held him, saith the Church, and would not let him go, Cant. 3. 4. But whilst we are busy here and there, while our Minds are over filled with other things, he withdraws himself, we cannot find him. But even this rebuke is a sanctified ordinance for our recovery, and his Return unto us.

WE are like him in the Parable of the Prophet that spake unto Ahab, who having one committed unto him to keep, affirms that whilst he was busie here and there, he was gone. Christ commits himself unto us, and we ought carefully to keep his presence; I held him, saith the Church, and would not let him go, Cant. 3. 4. But whilst we are busy here and there, while our Minds are over filled with other things, he withdraws himself, we cannot find him. But even this rebuke is a sanctified ordinance for our recovery, and his Return unto us.

2. Our second enquiry is, How we may know when Christ doth so withdraw himself from us, that we do not, that we cannot behold his Glory.

I SPEAK herein unto them alone who make the observation of the lively actings of Faith and Love in and towards Jesus Christ their chiefest concern in all their Retirements, yea in their whole walk before God, Concerning these, our enquiry is, how they may know when Christ doth in any degree or measure withdraw from them so as that they cannot in a due manner behold his Glory?