-1Pilfullmpenitency forfooth. Oh ic kills thee now to takepains hereabouts, like the .(luggard, the defire of the Pro.2i 2f·flP5ggard l~llJ" him, fir his harJdJ nfufe te labo:~r. Ee defires to h~ve t~- Crop,, buc it kills him to -go to the Plo;tg!:J :, he ddires to _hav~ his n:arkets , ,but it kills him to go thither. So thou de2irei1 to go to Heaven, but it l\ills thee to tak~ pains ; :rv~ortification , Self~Denial, Eepenta1~ce , l-1umiliation, Exami~1ation of , I Conkie1:ce , Reforn:ation of life , OJ1 thefe Lll thee to think of them: A Ggn much is in thee , but it kills. thee to put it for:h. I 3. ArfTU. r ii~::.ly ' A fign it io· 'i;~ thee' becaufe thou ~ can/f- do a hmzdred' timr:s more the11 when thou art ple;.fed; lik!J a wifo(td lazy Servant, you ·could (lo it· better if you were pkafed , fa.yes his 1V~a{ter. So cS long as thou art pleafed t11on c:r:H be uorc Religious, a fign it is in thee. R./;:hotcham, his ErH ·years were Religious; Peter .l'v!artyr cbf..:rves , he was ·well pleafed that L'Hne whi:e he fav; it was for the ~flablijhing ofhiJ J(i~''[;:lom. And the Lt'?Jits tame to him; fr:)m {cnlca'i~J, fo -lo:ng be was ple.afed, and tl1e:1 I1c ~-;,'as Religious, but afcerwards not; . ~nd -~\,rhy not afcerwards too,? Its a fign it was inhim, , b:.~.: he was not weH plea[ed; So Joajh _diclri,~[,ht in the fight of the ~r;rd all the dtqes of J ehcid?.. \Vhy ·? then he \vas well pleafed . ~ Kings with Religion , for it hel pt him to reot out , t 2. 2. AthaEd1s faR:ion , 'fehoiada had been the fa-. V~ot'/,1 (;f his ltfe, the help of ,him to the J(ing~ dor11 , th~ Lord ProteElfJr of hu Nonage ,- the e:f!:ablif!;:r of h~· Scepter, .t\11 this while R_eli..: gton _
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