Experiments of Spiritual Life & Health, and Their Preservatives / In Which the Weakest Child of God May Get Assurance of His Spirituall Life and Blessednesse Etc.

by Roger Williams

Your Honours unfeignedly faithfull.

R. W.

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To every truly Christian Reader.

Thy Maker is thy Husband. Isa. 52.

As it is in the Earthly, so it is in the Heavenly Marriage of a poor Sinner to his Maker. There useth first to passe a private kindling of Love, and a private consent and promise (which sometimes are long) before the open solemnity, and the publike profession of a Married Life together. This is my present designe, (not to controvert the matters of publike Order and Worship, but) to present some poor Experiments of those Personall excellencies of each true beleeving soule and spirit.

Isa. 40.

Prov. 21.

The Holy Spirit (in Isaiah) tels us of Ballances wherein the most High weighs the Hills and Mountains: As also in Solomon, of Ballances wherein hee weighs the very Spirits, even of men whose way is right in their owne eyes. And in John (14.) he commands us to try the Spirits, pretending to come from Christ Jesus, whether they be of God, or no.