Influences of the life of grace

6. None are so trailed through Hell and fiery indignation, as Job, David, Jeremiah, Heman; there appear in them some habitual mistakes of the love of God, or rather (because sinful acquired habits, are scarcely to be found in the renewed) more fixed inclinations, to apprehend wrathfulness, and Law-dispensation in God, and few are led this way; and the outlettings of influences of grace must be various here.

7. Neither should it be strange, if we might place, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and others in a seventh class, who had their own complainings; One saying, my leanness, my leanness; another fasting and walking in sackcloth for the sanctuaries desolation, and yet most submissive to the holy dispensations of God. In all which, another mans compass is not our rule of sailing, nor is the Lord's various dispensation to his children, which is ordered by his decree and will of pleasure, not by his commanding and approving will, the Scripture rule that we are to follow, in looking after Influences; Every one would submit to be ordered of God; he hath almost a various way of leading his own: if the same complete ransom, the same Promises, the same Guide, and Steersman to Heaven be mine, and the same hope of glory; yet the manifestations of God, the love visits, the influences of grace are hardly the same. ⟨p. 104⟩Its then a faulty ground of some, never one was like me, none of my condition in the world, since the Creation. Every one thinks their own hell on earth, the only hell. 2. Nor should Christians be unwilling, to know the spiritual condition one of another; you may fall upon some, in your very course and kind. Its like David, Psal. 71. 7. Heman, Psal. 88. 15. the suffering Church, Lam. 1. 12. Psal. 102. 6, 7. Elijah,