Secondly, Since God only must uphold your desires, W••• continually, as in his presence; Senility is only to be found in the presence of God; So fair we live an unchangeable life, as we walk and live in the presence of an unchangeable God. The •aints […] Heaven know no vicissitudes, or changes in their holy fran•e and temper of spirit, because they are perfected in the […] holding of his face, With whom is no variableness, nor […]. And so far, as the Saints on Earth can […] in their presence; so far the presence of God will keep them; 1[…] the Lord always before me; and because he ⟨p. 93⟩is •t my right hand; therefore I shall not be moved, sung David of himself, liberally, and in the person of Christ, typically: The privilege was made good to both, so far as either made good the Duty. David according to his degree, and proportion of grace, […] God before him, placed him on his right hand; and so long as he could keep Gods presence; the presence of God kept him; it kept him from sin, I have kept my self from my iniquity, 2how so? Why, I was upright before him, in the former part of the same Verse. So long as he walked before God, in Gods presence; so long he walked upright, and kept himself from his iniquity; or rather Gods presence kept him: And as it kept him from sin, so it kept him from fear also; 3Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will not fear; Mark what he saith, Though he walk not step; and walk through, not step cross; and through, not a dark Entry, or a Church-yard in the night time, but a Valley, a large, long, vast, place; How many miles long I know not; And this not a Valley of darkness only, but of death, where he should see nothing but visions of death, and not bare death, but the shadow of death; the shadow is the dark part of the thing; so that the shadow of death, is the darkest side of death: Death in its most hideous and horrid representations; and yet behold, when he comes out at the farther end, and a man would have thought to have found him all in a cold sweat, his hair standing upright, his eyes set in his head, and the man beside himself, &c. Behold I say, he doth not so much as change colour, his hand shakes not, his heart fails not, as he went in, he comes out; and though he should go back again the same way, he tells you, I will not fear. How comes this to pass, how comes the man to be so undaunted?
Secondly, Since God onely must uphold your desires, W••• continually, as in his presence; S••ilitie is onely to be found in the prefence of God; So faire we live an unchangeable life, as we walk and live in the presence of an unchangeable God. The •aints 〈…〉 Heaven know no vicissitudes, or changes in their holy fran•e and temper of spirit, because they are perfected in the 〈…〉 holding of his face, With whom is no variablenesse, nor 〈…〉. And so farre, as the Saints on Earth can 〈…〉 in their presence; so farre the presence of God will keep them; 1〈…〉 the Lord alwayes before me; and because he ⟨p. 93⟩is •t my right hand; therefore I shall not be moved, sung David of ••mself, liberally, and in the person of Christ, typically: The pri••ledge was made good to both, so far as either made good the Dutie. David according to his degree, and proportion of grace, 〈…〉 God before him, placed him on his right hand; and so long as he could keep Gods presence; the presence of God kept him; it kept him from sin, I have kept my self from my iniquitie, 2how so? Why, I was upright before him, in the former part of the same Verse. So long as he walkt before God, in Gods presence; so long he walkt upright, and kept himself from his iniquitie; or rather Gods presence kept him: And as it kept him from sin, so it kept him from fear also; 3Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will not fear; Mark what he saith, Though he walk not step; and walk through, not step crosse; and through, not a dark Entry, or a Church-yard in the night time, but a Valley, a large, long, vast, place; How many miles long I know not; And this not a Valley of darknesse onely, but of death, where he should see nothing but visions of death, and not bare death, but the shadow of death; the shadow is the dark part of the thing; so that the shadow of death, is the darkst side of death: Death in its most hideous and horrid representations; and yet behold, when he comes out at the farther end, and a man would have thought to have found him all in a cold sweat, his hair standing upright, his eyes set in his head, and the man beside himself, &c. Behold I say, he doth not so much as change colour, his hand shakes not, his heart fails not, as he went in, he comes out; and though he should go back again the same way, he tells you, I will not fear. How comes this to passe, how comes the man to be so undaunted?
- 1Isa. […]Isa. 〈…〉
- 2Ps. 18 13
- 3Psa 23.4.
