Serin. 22. Wherein are we endangered by loafs, things ? fuance of your defires, but you can bear any trouble or hard fhi -p that you may obtain the things defired, as we fee in Shechrm, Gen. 34.. who could endure circumcifion that he might have Dinah ; and in 74c4, who did indure very much that he taught have Rachel,Gen. 29.18. then there is a match towards, then in fuch a cafe when it is gained, the heart becomes glued to it, and commits fornicationwith it, and cannot indure to be touched or thwarted in the fruition of it, as Demetritts and the Silver_fmiths, when they found their Disn.z began to be touched by pauls doetrire, Aels 19 24,25, &-c. they made an uproar, they:would not endure that. When ye look on any thirg with a greedy and impatient, longing, tuning eye, that, if you do obtain it (if God doth not oche -wife order it) will prove a fnare to you, as the pfalmilt (peaks, Pfa1.69 22 an Idol, an image of jealouee, a curie and a cr.ofs. 2. When you have railed expetations and hopes of great con- tentment and fatisfaction from your comforts : when you promire to your felves greater matters from the creature than it ctn yeeld, then you mifcarry when you look on the creature through the mul- tiplying glafs of your affe &ions and lulls, and fee them as they are fo repr :fenced bigger and better than they are, and from thence you have high valuation of them, and raiLd expeca.tionsalloofgreat things :from them : when we fancie an excellency in the creature that is nor, we;fancy a fullnefs in an empty thing, a farisfaction in an in- fufficient, unfatisfying comfort, we fancie a (lability ina vain, fleet- ing, vaniíhitig thing : when we fancie a fountain excellency in a bro- ken ciltern, as they did 3er. 2.1 3. then upon this the heart is railed co great expeetations ofpl.eafure, profit, &c. then the heartihamefully miftarries, and as it is faid Rev. 13.3.4' there is a krange 'nail that turned, the eyes of all the world after it ; they looked with an eye of great expe&ation from this beaft, and then they .wondred and adored alto ; fo that they looked with an eye of admiration and adora- tion.tOO. 3. When the obedience and willing fubmiffior% of the foul is brought off 'to any worldly comfort, and tl;e foul Hoops to its fcepter, and she faculties like the Centurions fervants doe as they are bid, fuch'. comforts which are flavithly obeyed are finnefully enjoyed. When we are afraid to difpleafe them the fear is at command, when we are careful' to pleafe fuch'a lull, then the care is under fubj,!taión when we are troubled if croffed, then our forrow"is at command ; if rejoyced when that is gratified , then the love ánel delight of the foul are
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