Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

Verily, It looks very like an Operation of the HOLY SPIRIT, wherein His ANGELS may be His Ministers and His Instruments. However, it may Remonstrate, The Proud have greatly had me in Derision.

But then, what shall we say, about the Disappointments, that (as they say) have sometimes made this Particular Faith to appear no other, than an Over-heated Fancy, and left the Subjects of it, in Distresses and Confusions that must needs be very uneasy Ones? I make no doubt, that there have been Relations of such Disappointments, which have had little Foundation for them. I know very well, That when a Person has been Praying for a Complication of Blessings, and in the Ardours of Supplication, there have dropped from him only some Words of this Importance, Our GOD has graciously heard us, and will surely do us Good; the Unwary (and it may be, some ⟨p. 192⟩of them worse than merely Unwary) Hearers have run away with a Notion, and made a very Formal and Punctual Story upon it; That the Person Declared himself Assured of having Obtained All and Each of the Blessings that have been asked; and one of them failing, all the whole Particular Faith remains only to be Laughed at. This was doubtless the very case, in a Formal and Punctual Story, which some of our English Histories employ their Banter and Burlesque upon. Yea, I am ready to think, That sometimes the Supplicants themselves have procured some Distresses and Confusions to themselves by not Attending well to the Terms of the Impression made upon their Minds, and carrying the Interpretation beyond what they should have done, or what was Necessary.

But then, what shall we say, about the Disappointments, that (as they say) have sometimes made this Particular Faith to appear no other, than an Over-heated Fancy, and left the Subjects of it, in Distresses and Confusions that must needs be very uneasy Ones? I make no doubt, that there have been Relations of such Disappointments, which have had little Foundation for them. I know very well, That when a Person has been Praying for a Complication of Blessings, and in the Ardours of Supplication, there have dropt from him only some Words of this Importance, Our GOD has graciously heard us, and will surely do us Good; the Unwary (and it may be, some