706 Ujthe SE NDINv ~Se -----------~-------,---- nnon Io .J>f:U. 1o6, 1G, arethey,D•:vidthankes Go o forhreaki11ginjimder. Thercneedno~ we will fay, 1foncewe come to feelcthem. Thetals, tharfinne makes in ~onds, rC:U,.!,•P 8· fmm:e, arerheentringoftheironintoourfoiJle. t e<on. But you will fay, we feele not rhefe neither;nomorethan the former N Takethisforarule: If CH n. r s -r healerhem,thatbehroken-hearted.6;o.i o~oe!. tedwe behove to be, yer He can heale us. He is meditt~s cordis indeed. but 1·ten. '": · · I · d" · d( h" k h ' IScordu <ontrztt. ttsacon moneverannexe t· IS) toma cus t emorecapable·a d!'k wife adifpofition it is, tomake us the more curable. That fameP••ptrib~(b ~1 e. and this contriti<now, they limit CH a. I s -r s cure; His cure and Hisc 01 / ore) both: and unle!fe they be, or until! they be, This Scripture is not, norcannotb~fi"l jilledinus. Inoureares, itmaybe; butin.ourh~arts,never. . '•· That, as fuch as come to be healed by His Mi:jeftie, are firfl fearched andafi either put by, or admitted as caufe is: fo therewould be aScrutinie offuch as m~L pr.J.u9. 7o. toward CaR I s-r. What,areyoupoore? pooreinfpirit ?(forrhepur[eitshlls~r-~ No, but dicEs quia dives, in good cafe: C HR I • -r is not for youthen. He isji ,; the po&re. What, is your heart hroken? No, but heart-whole, ahear; as6ra:,/ thenareyounorforthiscure. _In all C ~RI~ -r • difpen(atory, thereisnoram;. dwne, for futh aheart; aheart like brawne(t~at 1s)hard and un-yeelding. · CHRIsT Hnnfdfefeemestog1vetl11S Item, when Heappliesitafter:uu 4 ; ny Wid~rves, Many Lepers (faithHe:) andfo, many jin11ers: Elia< fenr to none but the poore Widow ofSarepta; Elifeus healed none, but onely Naaman, afterhkJPi· rttcamedowne,washr~km. Nomorcdoth CH RIS -r, butfuchas:ueofacontritl heart. · Veri!y, the cafe as beforewe fet it downe, is the !inners cafe; feele lie it fede he it not. But ifany be fo benumroed,as he is not fenfible ofthis; foblinde, ~salmgeonor no dungeon, all one to !urn; 1f any havethts fame Sctrrhumcordi<, that makes him pall: feeling, it is no good figne: but, it may be, our houreis notyet come, our cure is yet behind. But, ifit fhould fo continue, and never be otherwife, then wereit Pr••·P'· a very evil! figne. For,what is fuch a ones cafe,but (as Salomon faith) .u theoxtth<t u led to thejlaughter without any fenfe, or thefoole thatgoes laughing whm ht is larried tobe wellwhipped? Wha_£ cafemore pittifull ~ You Will fay: we'have nohammer,noworldly Cro!fetobreake our htartl.!tmay be. That,is Mdnajfes haiiJmer;thecommonhammer(indeed :) bur, that is notKi•g Davids hammer, which I rather commend to you; the right hammer to doethe fear, to workecontrition in kind. The right, is the.fight of our owne finncs. And,! \Yill fay this for it: that I never in my lifefawanyman broughtfo lowwithany worldly calamity, as I have, with this.fight. And thefe, lfpeake of, were not ofthe common fort, but ~pen offpirit andvaler, that durfl havelookeddeath in theface. Yec, when Go o opened their eyes, ro fee this fight; their hearts werehroken,yea,evengmml. topowder with it; contrite indeed. . . . . And this is fure; ifa man be not humMedwtth the light of his fins, Ins notal' thecrof!es or lo!fes in the world will ht~mble him aright. . This, is the right. And, without any worldly cro!fe, this we mighthave, ifwe loved not fo to :rbfem our fel"ves from our felves, to be even fugitivi cord~t, toru~ away from our owne hearts ; be ever abroad, never within: ifweewouldbut fome•, Efay 4 u . . times redire ad cor, remrne home thither, and defcend into our felves_; fa~ly and fd: oufly to bethinke us ofthem, and the danger we are in, by them ;thtsmtght be ha·, And this would be had, ifit might be. If not, in default ofthis (no remcdy)f,heCI!;: mon hammertnufr come ;and Go D fend us M111Mjfes hammer, to breakett.; ome h dilyficknejfe;fpme worldlyafjlil!im, to fend us home into our [elves. Bur,furet ~ <..Angel!muff c;:ome downe and the Jfl4/tr he Jfirred; elfe we may preach long enoug tO tiTICQIItrlte htafts, but no good will bedone, till then, loh11 f.4~ I havebe;n~ too fong in the Caufe: but, theknowledge of the Caufe, in everY, difeafc, we reckon halfethecure~ To the .beAling,now~· .. jilt
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