Certain select cases resolved specially tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…

3. Let him consider the fullness of the promise, which is a plaster as big as his sore, just answerable to all his wants, nay infinitely more large then his wants. And surely these three things will draw his heart to long for the promise, and then you know what is conditionally promised and bequeathed to them that thirst: For similitude is the ground of love. Now when the fullness of the promise is seen, there will appear such a suitableness and fitness of the promise to his soul, that he cannot but long for it.¹ Thus much for the fifth trouble.

3. Let him consider the fulnesse of the promise, which is a plaister as big as his sore, just answerable to all his wants, nay infinitely more large then his wants. And surely these three things will draw his heart to long for the promise, and then you know what is conditionally promised and bequeathed to them that thirst: For similitude is the ground of love. Now when the fulnesse of the promise is seen, there will appeare such a suteablenesse and fitnesse of the promise to his soule, that hee cannot but long for it.¹ Thus much for the fifth trouble.

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Your sixth trouble set down in two heads, ⟨p. 39⟩put into one for brevity, viz. secret unwillingness to seek God in the strictest solemn services, before you enter into them; weariness of them while they last, and glad when they are gone: the reasons which you mention are, partly fear of not using them aright, together with melancholy, and lastly, the strictness of them.¹