Both clear and cloudy 1, free and bound; 2 I'm heal'd ev'n when my plagues abound, 9 Nor shall I live, yet cannot die. 12 perplexed but not in despair. John xvi. 33. These things I have spoken unte you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation : but be of good chear, I have overcome the world. Heb. iv. 3. For we which have believed, do enter into rest. 1 Zech. xiv. 6, 7. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark. But it shall be one day, which shall be known to the Lord, not day nor night, but it shall come to pass, that at evening-time it shall be light. Micah vii. 8. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy, when I fall, I shall arife, when I fit in darkness, the Lord fhall be a light unto me. 2 John viii. 36. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. Acts xx. 23. The Holy Ghost witnessing in every city, saying, that bonds and afflictions abide me. 3 2 Cor. vi. 9.-as dying, and behold, we live. Col. iii. 3. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 Matth. xviii. 11. For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. Pfalm cxix. 176. I have gone aftray like a lost sheep; feek thy servent. Phil. iii. 9. And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law. but that which is through faith of Chrift, &c. 5 Rom. viii. 28. And we know that all things work together for good, to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Chap. xi. 11. I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall falvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. 6 Pfalm lxxxix. 31, 32. If they break my starutes, and keep not my commandments, then will I vifit their tranfgreffion with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 7 Pfalm cxix. 67. Before I was afflicted, I went astray: but now I have kept thy word. Verse 71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted: that I might learn thy statutes. James i. 2. My brethren, count it all joy, when ye fall into divers temptations. 8 Matth. x. 39. He that loseth his life for my fake, shall find it. Mark x. 29, 30. And Jesus answered and said, Verily I lay unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or fifters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my fake and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hun. dred fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and fifters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with perfecutions; and, in the world to come, eternal life. 9 Rom. vii. 24, 25. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 10 Viz. With mercy, Job xlii. 5, 6. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore, I abhor myself, and repent in duft and ashes. Ezek. xvi. 63. That thou mayst remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou haft done, faith the Lord God. 2 Cor. vi. 9.-as dying, and behold, we live. 12 Heb. ix. 27. It is apointed unto men once to die. John v. 24. Verily, For all my fins my heart is sad, Since God does thereby honour win 3, My fins are ever in his eye 4, Yet he beholds no sin in me 5, Because my fins are great, I feel verily I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is paffed from death unto life. Chap. vi. 40. And this is the will of him that fent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life. Ver. 50, 51. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. 1 Pfalm li. 4. Against thee, thee only have I finned, and done this evil in thy fight. 2 Rom. xvi. 17. But God be thanked, that ye were the fervants of fin; but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 3 Ifaiah xliv. 23. Sing, O heavens; for the Lord hath done it; shout ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into finging, ye mountains, O forests, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel. Eph. i. 6. To the praise of the glory of his grace. Ver. 12. That we should be to the praise of his glory. 4 Rev. iii. a. I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Ver. 15. I know thy works that thou art neither cold nor hot. 5 Numb. xxiii. 21. He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverfenefs in Ifrael. Song iv. 7. Thou art all fair, my love, there is no spot in thee. Ezek xvi. 14. And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness which I had put upon thee, faith the Lord God. • 6 Ifaiah xliii. 25. I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy tranfgreffions for mine own fake, and will not remember thy fins. Jer. xxxi. 4. I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their fin no more. Heb. viii. 12. I will be merciful to their untighteousness, and their fins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 7 Ezra ix. 13, 14 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trefpafs, feeing that thou our God hatt punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and haft given us such deliverance as this; should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? Wouldit not thou be angry with us till thou hadit confumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor efcaping? Pfalm xxxviii. 1. O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 8 Pfalm xxv. 11. For thy name's fake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity: for it is great. Jer. xiv. 7. O Lord, though our iniquities testify againft us, do thou it for thy name's fake: for our backslidings are many, we have finned against thee. : I hope when plung'd into despair, 1, SECT. IV. Mysteries in FAITH'S Extractions, Way and Walk, Prayers and Answers, Heights and Depths, Fear and Love. WITH wafps and bees my busy bill Sucks ill from good, and good from ill: 5 Humil'ty makes my pride to grow, 1 Rom. iv. 18. Who (viz. Abraham) against hope believed in hope. 2 Cor. i. 8, 9. For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Afia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, in so much that we despaired even of life: but we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not truft in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead. 2 Phil. ii. 2. Wherefore, by beloved, as ye have always obeyed not as in my prefence only, but now much more in my absence; work out your own falvation with fear and trembling. Luke i. 74. That he would grant us, that we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, might serve him without fear. 3 Matth. ix. 2. Jesus said unto the fick of the palfy, Son, be of good cheer, thy fins be forgiven thee. 4 Ezek. xxxvi. 25, 26. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the ftony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. Ver. 31. Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own fight, for your iniquities, and for your abominations. Chap xvi. 63. That thou mayst remember and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou haft done, faith the Lord God. 5 Rom. ii. 4. Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-fuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to re. pentance? Chap. vii. 1, 2. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in fin, that grace may abound? God forbid how thall we that are dead to fin, live any longer therein? Ver. 15. What then? shall we fin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Chap. viii. 28. And we know that all things work together for good, to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose. Phil. i. 12. But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me, have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel. Plalm cxix. 71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted: that I might learn thy statutes. 6 2 Cor. xii. 7. And left I should be exalted above measure, through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, left I should be exalted above measure. Prov. xxix. 23. A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit. 2 Chron. xxxii 26. Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart (both he and the inhabitants of Jerufalem), so that the wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah. 1 My standing does my fall procure, I My poverty infers my wealth, 5 My fickness issues in my health, 6 1 Pfalm xxx 6,7 And in my profperity I said, I shall never be moved: Lord, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong; thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled 2 Prov xxiv 16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: Plalm xxxvii 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand 3 2 Cor xii 7, 8 And lest I should be exalted above measure, through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the meffenger of Satan, to buffet me, left I should be exalted above measure: For this thing I befought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me Isa xxvii 8, 9 In meafure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it; he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind: By this, therefore, shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit to take away his fin 4 Gal 17 The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh Verse 24 And they that are Chrift's have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lufts. 5 Rev ii 9 I know thy poverty, but thou art rich 2 Cor xvi 10-as having nothing, and yet poffeffing all things 6 Matth ix 12 They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are fick faiah lvii 17 18 For the iniquity of his covetousnefs was I wroth, and fmote him: I hid me, and was wroth; and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart 1 have feen his ways, and will heal him I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him, and to his mourners 7 Ifaiah Ixiii 17 O Lord, why haft thou made us to err from thy ways ? and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants fake, the tribes of thine inheritance 8 2 Cor i. 9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead Hofea v 15 1 will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence and seek my face : in their affliction they will feek me early Chap i. 6 Come and let us return unto the Lord; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up 9 1 Peter v 5, 6 Be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility : for God refifteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble Humble yourfelves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time Pfalm cxvi 6 1 was brought low, and he helped me 10 Pfalm xxx. 6, 7. In my profperity I faid, I shall never be moved. Lord by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled Deut xxxii. 14, 15 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat, and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape: But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat; thou art grown thick; thou art covered with fatness: Then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his falvation. Pfalm cvi. 7. Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt, they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies, but provoked him at the fea, even at the Red Sea. My inward foes, that me alarm, I travel 7, yet stand firm and fast; 8 Within my fight 12, yet out of view. 12 11 Pfalm xxX. 11 Thou haft turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my fackcloth, and girded me with gladness. Rom. viii. 28. See figure 5. p. 171. 1 Jer. x. 19. Wo is me for my hurt, my wound is grievous: but I faid, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear ir. : Pet. iii. 13. And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? 2 In themselves, but much evil, I Pet. ii. 11. Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lufts, which war against the foul. James i. 14, 15. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own luft, and enticed. Then when luft hath conceived, it bringeth forth fin; and fin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. 3 Pfalm cxliii. 9. Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me. 4 Rom. viii. 13. If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die. 5 Pfalm xviii. 46, 47. The Lord liveth, and blessed be my rock: and let the God of my falvation be exalted. It is God that avengeth me, and fubdueth the people under me. 6 Pfalm lv. 6. And I faid, O that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away and be at rest. And cxx. 5. Wo is me that I sojourn in Mesech. that I dwell in the tents of Kedar. Rom. viii. 20,-23. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who had fubjected the fame in hope: because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth, and travaileth in pain together until now; and not only they, but ourselves also which have the firft-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adop. tion, to wit, the redemption of our body, earth. 7 Heb. xi. 13.-and confeffed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the 8 1 Cor. xvi. 13. Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. 9 Heb. xii. 1. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us. 10 Ifaiah xxviii. 16. He that believeth, shall not make haste. 11 Jer. vi. 16. Thus faith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and afk for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye thall find reft for your fouls. Heb. x 19, 20 Having therefore, brethren, boldness ta |