.40 _. * Cogita lama do hiìc me ltbc- res,non quomod hûc cectderini quarar. Aug. Epift42y. Ebeu ! quot iris; habet fan- lus David,vel ,otiur fpirityr fanilus ad futon Cyrharam. Par. cas V$7LCt 7ò iestv. Ifa.57.8. nit. Apperuit nob in Paradifo eculas faran. nunc omni; la- bor in eo nobis eft,ut eor iterum claudamus 6. bruremur. Lu- ther. Ridieulatm eft quod quidam refpondent fe fpetlaculis non moveri. quid. n- an ferrei. an faxei. an Adamantini funt.an (apten- tiores, fortiores fautliores quam David, Chryf. In PCaI. 51. Nom. r. 1 Agri; corpori- bus f mitlima fo ef, t aeritudo animi. Cic. de fin. 7.13. How say we get rid of Spiritaafl Sloth ? Sean. 21. 1 egubre, like a Funeral Anthem,very fad & forrotvful. Do you not feel & hnd,to the griefof your own fouls,rhat whereas you fhould weep as if you wept nor,rejoyce as if you rejoy ced not, and buy, as if you pof- feffed not : Inverfo ordine, you weep for loffes as if ye would weep out your eyes ; you rejoyce in temporal comforts as if you were in heaven; and you buy as if it were for ever and a day,Pfa.4g 1 r.But è contrario, o You pray as if you prayed not, hear as i f you heard not, work for God as if' you worked not. Now we know experto credal* a man that licks faft in a ditch needs no reafons to prove he is in, but remedies to pull him out. Your belt courfe will be to propofe the cafe how you may get rid of this unwelcome gueft fpiritual floth ; it is a cafe we are all con- cerned in. Aftni mires gseis non habet ; Every man and mortal bath lime of the Aflfes dulnefs and floth in him ; and therefore I have brought a whip of ten firings to fcourge this floth and dulnefs our of us. I. Keep a aria watch over your eyes at all times, efpecially when you are in duty ; the eyes are the Portholes that Si n and Sathan creep in at; it is accounted a great piece of charity to a mans body to clofe his eyes when he is dead :1 am fure it is more charity to our fouls to dole our own eyes whilít we are living. See what a ftriâ guard 7a6 keeps upon his eyes, that would not prrnit them at any time to view vain or wanton Objets, 7c6 3 r, 1. I have made a covenant with mine eyes, why thenfliosld Ilookupon a maid ? And the Prophet kerns here to imply,that unlefsGod would turn away his eyes from beholding vanity, he fhould never be quickned in his way ; It is removere prohibens, be- holding vanity forbids the banes between the foul and quickning. l'f you will keep your houles warm, you mull keep your doors fnut : If you will keep your hearts hot in a duty, you muff keep your eyes fhut. If thefe doors fland wide open for all corners and goers, either your foul, Dinah -like, will be gadding out, or Sachan will be getting in, by which the poor foul will be defiled and deflowred. 2. Send fin packing bag and baggage; thefe two mutually generate one the other. Mater megenasit, eadem tnoxgignitur ex me. Sin begets (loth, and flotti begets fin : Sloth in David made him finful, and fin in David made him flothful. Sin is the fouls ficknefs, now ficknefs makes men azy, littler, loath to flir. There is a difeafe incident to mans body, called the Lethargy, which makes him drowfie, fleepy, negligent, and rgerful,it fprings from a cold Cathar of a pitchy and glutinous nature which cools and benums the brain; Sloth is the Souls Lethargy, which makes it fluggiíh, negligent, forgetful, this grifes from the Cachar of fin,
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