Seim. i 5. when Inward andoutward Troubles rneet ? 367 7oab, but there's a traitour Sheba harboured here, &c. 'f is he that put the City into fear and danger, and made 7oab feem their Eneny,when his head was delivered all was quiet ; now when thou infiflefl on the bulnefs of mortification,t heu wilt joy when thou fallefit into tribula- tion, as it wis with 7.1el, J °udg. 4. having done execution upon Sifera, come faith the to Barge, &c. Wcll-come my Lords, I know whom you purfue,here he is dead at your feet, behold the nail in his temple ! O I faith one vifitrd with the itroek of death, I have been long getting down this body of death, and now God will do all my work at once ; be not flack in this work , and afi-lidions will be more joyous than grievous. e- 7. Yet again,to come to the root of this malignity, and in order to Dena 7; the advancing of the work of mortification : endeavor after mortified affections to the World , thefe are the fuckets that draw away thy firength from God, and the fewel and foment and flrength of 211 that . corruption, that mull be mortified. Avcreon from God, with an im- moderate clinging and cleaving to the creature, is the whole corrup- tion of N tture. Afi ìaion is the reducing thee to God , and the un- gluing , difengagir.g , and divorcing thee from a carnal worldly terefl ; therefore minku gaudebis, mintu dolebia , the lefs thou joy eft, the lets thou rueft ; the lefs thou layeft a World- intereft near thy . heart, the let's chat affliction which is the parting work, will go to thy heart ; therefore let all creature - comforts and advantages he loof about thee as thy cloathes, which thou mayefl ealily lay afide, and not as thy skin, which cannot be pulled off without great torture; aii. C}ion endangers nothing but that which is outward , therefore let not, thy exceffive refpe to that which is without thee,make thy affii &ion_ an inward terrour. If thou countefl: the World of no value . thou wilt be able without inward perplexity and fear to pats through all. places of danger and plunder; as the Travellour, when he carries but. a fmall matter, which he knows if he loofes, it will. not at all undo him.Befìdes,I/ rhos loyal the World, the love of the Father is not in thee, and this will be a defperate venomous fling to thy Soul in thy afieti- on; if thou wouldit not have the World thy pi egue and thy poifon in the enjoying, thy wrack and thy terrour in the looting, comply with theWord and Spirit of Grace in the application of a Chrift crucified for the crucifying and mortifying of thy affeetionaunco every earthly interelL 8. In reference to the eighth caufe ( unacquainted nefs with affili- Direc`l. S, dion)live in the meditation and .expectation of the Crofs,be much in
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