Communion of Saints most sweet, and to be lamented after.
Tis true, the communion of Saints is sweet and joyfull, strong and powerfull, eternally gainfull and profitable; and holy and blessed is that Spirit that makes the Saints (who are the Excellent of the Earth) its Delight, and after that blessed hour of the Saints uniting in one Heart, one Spirit, one Worship, let all that love Christ Jesus mourne and lament, and breath and pant: And yet the weakest and the faintest Lamb that comes but stealing in the Crowd to touch the hemb of the Lord Jesus his garment, that is content to be esteemed a Dog, and to wait for crums of mercy under the Table of the Son of God: let them I say rejoyce also, for he that hath begun that blessed work by his owne free and eternall Spirit, will by the same his owne holy Arme, gloriously finish it.
I end (Deare Christian) with the proposall of two Christian knots, or Riddles, not unsuitable to these present Times and Spirits?
Two Christian Riddles, suiting these times and spirits.
First, Why is the Heart of a David himself (Psa. 30.) more apt to decline from God, upon the Mountaine of Joy, Deliverance, Victory, Prosperity, then in the dark Vale of the shadow of Death, Persecution, Sicknesse, Adversity, &c.
Secondly, Why is it, since God worketh freely in us to doe and to will of his owne good pleasure, that yet he is pleased to command us to work out our owne Salvation with Feare and Trembling? Let us all humbly beg the Finger (the Spirit) of the Lord to untie these Knots for us.
I desire to be thine unfeighned in
Christ Jesus,
R. W.
