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The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believerThe Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer
The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believer by Thomas Watson.The Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer by Thomas Watson.
London: printed by T.R. & E.M. for Ralph Smith, 1654
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Object. 2. But sometimes those that are adopted are under the black clouds of desertion:1 How doth this consist with love?
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Answ. 1. Yet God leaves a seed of comfort: He that believes, 1hath the seed of God in him*. Gods children when they want the Sun, yet they have a day-s•ar in their heart. They have the work of sanctification, ⟨p. 54⟩when they want the wine of consolation: Grace is better then comfort.
- 1Answ. 1.
- *1 Joh. 3.9
2. I answer, God may forsake his children in regard of vision, but not in regard of union. Thus it was with Jesus Christ, when he cried out, My God, my God. There was not a separation of the union between him and his Father, only a suspension of the vision*