2. If you want Assurance wait for it; if the Figures are graven on the Dial, it is but waiting a while and the Sun shines: When Grace is engraven in the Heart, it is but waiting a while and we shall have the Sun-shine of Assurance. He that believes makes not haste, Isa. 28.16. He will stay Gods leisure; say not God hath forsaken you, he will never lift up the light of his Countenance, but rather say as the Church, Isa. 8.17. I will wait upon the Lord which hideth his face from the House of Jacob. 1. Hath God waited for your Conversion, and will not you wait for his Consolation? How […] did he come a wooing to you by his Spirit? He waited till his Head was filled with Dew: He cried as Jer. 13.27. Wilt thou not be made clean, when shall it once be? O Christian! did God wait for thy Love, and canst not thou wait for his? 2. Assurance is so sweet and precious, that it is worth waiting for, the price of it is above Rubies, it cannot be valued with th• Gold of Ophir. Assurance of Gods Love is a Pledge of Election, 'tis the Angels Banquet; what other Joy have they? As Micah said, Judges 18.24. What have I more? So when God assures the Soul of his eternal purposes of Love, what hath he more to give? Whom God kisseth he Crowns. Assurance is [Greek or Hebrew], The first Fruits of Paradise, one Smile of Gods Face, one Glance of his Eye, one Crumb of the hidden Manna, is so sweet a Delicious, that it deserves our waiting. 3. God hath given a ⟨p. 205⟩Promise, that we shall not wait in vain, Isa. 49.23. They shall not be ashamed that wait for me. Perhaps God reserves this Cordial of Assurance for a fainting time; He keeps sometimes his best Wine till last. Assurance shall be reserved as an Ingredient to sweeten the bitter Cup of Death.
2. If you want Assurance wait for it; if the Figures are graven on the Dial, it is but waiting a while and the Sun shines: When Grace is engraven in the Heart, it is but waiting a while and we shall have the Sun-shine of Assurance. He that believes makes not haste, Isa. 28.16. He will stay Gods leisure; say not God hath forsaken you, he will never lift up the light of his Countenance, but rather say as the Church, Isa. 8.17. I will wait upon the Lord which hideth his face from the House of Jacob. 1. Hath God waited for your Conversion, and will not you wait for his Consolation? How 〈…〉 did he come a woing to you by his Spirit? He waited till his Head was fill'd with Dew: He cry'd as Ier. 13.27. Wilt thou not be made clean, when shall it once be? O Christian! did God wait for thy Love, and canst not thou wait for his? 2. Assurance is so sweet and precious, that it is worth waiting for, the price of it is above Rubies, it cannot be valued with th• Gold of Ophir. Assurance of Gods Love is a Pledge of Election, 'tis the Angels Banquet; what other Joy have they? As Micah said, Iudges 18.24. What have I more? So when God assures the Soul of his eternal purposes of Love, what hath he more to give? Whom God kisseth he Crowns. Assurance is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, The first Fruits of Paradise, one Smile of Gods Face, one Glance of his Eye, one Crumb of the hidden Manna, is so sweet a Delicious, that it deserves our waiting. 3. God hath given a ⟨p. 205⟩Promise, that we shall not wait in vain, Isa. 49.23. They shall not be ashamed that wait for me. Perhaps God reserves this Cordial of Assurance for a fainting time; He keeps sometimes his best Wine till last. Assurance shall be reserved as an Ingredient to sweeten the bitter Cup of Death.
