till then, they will sit the most pressing calls of the Gospel, but then they can sit no longer, they must, they will rise then, and run after him, they will then (as the word signifies) make a free will Offering of themselves to thim, however inexorable and inflexible they had showed themselves before, they will then make an absolute, entire, universal, unexceptioned and Irreversible Surrender and Resignation of themselves to him, to be at his dispose, to be guided and saved by him in his own way. I know, the Remembrance of those Communion Sabbaths, High Sabbaths, and other ordinary Sabbaths and week days, wherein you Sister, and other Serious seekers of God in Glasgow in particular, heard the joyful sound, walked in the light of Gods Countenance, and Rejoiced in his Name all the day, Living in a Holy crowd of Precious Gospel-Ordinances, and having, as it were, the Heavenly Manna of the Gospel falling abundantly about your Camp every day, making you think and say, that it was good to be there, is this day sweet and Savoury to you, and helps you in a good measure, to keep up a suitable and due esteem of fellowship and Communion with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ, which is commended and endeared to your Souls and to the Souls of others of the Lords People, by the choice, rare, excellent and non-such Nature and Properties of it, It being found by you all, Privileged with admission to the enjoyment thereof, in your experience to be: First, most Real and no Chimerical fancy, or a thing that hath no being but in the deluded imagination of the Person; and truly (saith the Apostle John. 1 Jon. 1.3. Our Fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ: It hath most real effects, though Spiritual: Gracious Souls being more lively affected with them, then their very external Senses are by the rarest and most ⟨image 6⟩Remarkable Objects: And no doubt, the more Spiritual any thing is, It hath in it the greater reality, and worketh the more Powerfully and efficaciously; It is uncontrovertible and quite removed from all reach of rational debate, that God is the greatest reality, and by Proportion Communion with God, Whereby nearest and closest Approaches are made to him, must be very real: marvellous are the effects of this Communion, and that your Souls know right well, as the Psalmist speaketh Psal. 139 14. in another case.
till then, they will sit the most pressing calls of the Gospel, but then they can sit no longer, they must, they will rise then, and run after him, they will then (as the word signifies) make a free will Offering of themselves to thim, however inexortable and inflexible they had shewed themselves before, they will then make an absolute, entire, universall, unexceptioned and Irreversible Surrender and Resignation of themselves to him, to be at his dispose, to be guided and saved by him in his own way. I know, the Remembrance of those Communion Sabbaths, High Sabbaths, and other ordinary Sabbaths and week days, wherein you Sister, and other Serious seekers of God in Glasgow in particular, heard the joyfull sound, walked in the light of Gods Countenance, and Rejoiced in his Name all the day, Living in a Holy croud of Precious Gospel-Ordinances, and having, as it were, the Heavenly Manna of the Gospel falling abundantly about your Camp every day, making you think and say, that it was good to be there, is this day sweet and Savoury to you, and helps you in a good measure, to keep up a suitable and due esteem of fellowship and Communion with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ, which is commended and indeared to your Souls and to the Souls of others of the Lords People, by the choice, rare, excellent and non-such Nature and Properties of it, It being found by you all, Priviledged with admission to the enjoyment thereof, in your experience to be: First, most Real and no Chimerical fancy, or a thing that hath no being but in the deluded imagination of the Person; and truly (saith the Apostle John. 1 Jon. 1.3. Our Fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ: It hath most reall effects, though Spiritual: Gracious Souls being more lively affected with them, then their very external Senses are by the rarest and most ⟨image 6⟩Remarkable Objects: And no doubt, the more Spiritual any thing is, It hath in it the greater reality, and worketh the more Powerfully and efficaciously; It is uncontrovertible and quite removed from all reach of rational debate, that God is the greatest reality, and by Proportion Communion with God, Whereby nearest and closest Approaches are made to him, must be very real: marvellous are the effects of this Communion, and that your Souls know right well, as the Psalmist speaketh Psal. 139 14. in another case.
