The beatitudes

Caution 1. Not that the Saints have always the Caution 1 fame certainty, or that they have such an assurance as excludes all doubtings and conflicts; there will be flowings and ebbings in their comforts, as well as in their graces; was it not so in David? sometimes we hear him say, Gods loving-kindness was before his eyes, Psal. 26.3. As it is a Proverbial speech, I have such a thing in my eye, I see it just before me; but at another time, Where are thy loving-kindnesses? Psal. 89.49. A Christian hath not always the same Plerophory; Saint Paul at one time sets up the Trophies of victory, and sings his [Greek or Hebrew], or triumphant song. Rom. 8.37. We are more than Conquerors. At another time how did the Plumes of his confidence fall? and he was as a man in the midst of the Sea, struggling with the waves, and crying out for help, Rom. 7.24. [Greek or Hebrew], O wretched man that I am, &c. A Saint in this life is like a ship at Anchor, which though safe, yet it may be sometimes tossed upon the water; these doubtings and convulsions God suffers in his children sometimes, that they may long the more for heaven, where they shall have a constant spring-tide of joy.

Caution 1. Not that the Saints have alwayes the Caution 1 fame certainty, or that they have such an assurance as excludes all doubtings and conflicts; there will be flowings and ebbings in their comforts, as well as in their graces; was it not so in David? sometimes we hear him say, Gods loving-kindness was before his eyes, Psal. 26.3. As it is a Proverbial speech, I have such a thing in my eye, I see it just before me; but at another time, Where are thy loving-kindnesses? Psal. 89.49. A Christian hath not alwayes the same Plerophory; Saint Paul at one time sets up the Trophies of victory, and sings his 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or triumphant song. Rom. 8.37