Hitherto tend these _Experiments_ of personal Communion with _God_ in the _Spirit of Holinesse_, _Rom. 1. 3_. [Sidenote: To counterfeit the holy Spirit dreadfull.] 'Tis true, all publike and private _Christian Spirits_, pretend the _Spirit of Holinesse_: yea, how great a part of the _World_ pretend to be _Christendome_, the _Christian world_, that is, anointed with the _Spirit_ of _Christ Jesus_? But was it _Death_ in _Moses Rites_ to counterfeit that ceremoniall and figurative _Ointment_, _Exod. 30_. what shall it be to counterfeit the _Spirit_ of _Life_ and _Holiness_ it self? What I beleeve therefore (as _David_ and _Paul_ once spake) I freely speak: Yea, who can but speak (saith _Peter_ and _John_) the Things they have seene and heard? I confesse I spake these first but in a private _Letter_ in _America_, and thought not that the _light_ in _Europe_ should have seen them: But a two-fold _desire_ hath prevailed with me to expose these _Tryalls_ to the _Trying_ of all men. 1. The earnest _desire_ of some _Godly Friends_. 2. Mine owne _desire_ of sowing a little handfull of _spirituall seed_ while the short _Minute_ of my _seed-time_ (the _opportunity_ of life) lasteth. [Sidenote: The least of the little ones of Christ Jesus ought to rejoyce.] My scope is to fill each truly _Christian soule_ with _triumphing_ and _rejoycing_: I speak _peace_ and _joy_ to the Weakest _Lamb_ and _Child_ (in _Christianity_) that is so _low_, so _weake_, so _litle_, so _poor_ in its owne eyes, that it sometimes saith, it hath no _Christ_, no _Spirit_, no _Faith_, no _Love_, no nor true _Desire_ in it selfe. To this poore weake one I speak _peace_ and _joy_, and say, this _spirituall poverty_ is blessed, and is the first _step_ or _round_ of that spirituall _Ladder_, _Mat. 5_. Blessed are the poor in _spirit_, for theirs is the _Kingdome_ of _Heaven_. Secondly, I found joyfull _Alarums_ of _Encouragement_ to the _strong_ to grow (as _Peter_ exhorteth) in the _Grace_ and _Knowledge_ of the _Lord Jesus_. [Sidenote: 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.