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CONSIDER, that the coming of the holy Ghost was preceded and ac∣compaigned with a suddaine sound (like to a great lowde, and vehement blast of wind) which came from heauen and filled the whole howse &c. Thus it is, that the
hand of the highest is wont to worke a hap∣pie change on the harts of men.
He powerfully thunders downe from heauen, and forces his passage through our deafe eares, by frequent; feruent, and redoubled inspirations: Rise vp thou that sleepest, and rise vp from the dead, and Christ will enlighten thee. And he cries so lowde, that howeuer we neglect; we cannot de∣ney that we heard his call,
[Affection.] Noe my Soule, we cannot de∣nie it: Hee hath preuented our harts with strange blessings. He hath often cried out with a lowd voice, and replenished the whole howse of our harts with this sound. I am thy saluation. I am thy exceeding great reward. Life is short and vncertaine, Eternity endlesse: God is iust and dreadfull: and who is able to liue in eternall flames? And the∣se words haue often clouen to our very hart rootes, and we haue found ourselues intrenched on euery side, and we haue had nothing to oppose against them, but certaine slow and sleepie delayes: behold I will shortly sett vpon such and such a good worke: or subdue such or such a vice which raignes in me, and shortly it shall be done; And yet, what is notorious, and
we cannot deney, with the Iewes, we stri∣ue to suppresse, and stifle the grace of the holy Ghost in our hartes; And yet are we still detayned, by verie toyes of toyes from concluding an absolute league of perfect friendshipp with the God of our hartes, who laies so close a seige to them.