366 IUcfe Verfe Y Z. are fpots in the feat's ofCharitie,who feedwithout feare, mat,a4 18,39. Eating, g drinking,building, matter ofmarriage,the world 'hall bedrowned in thefe, when Chritt comes to Judge Iob.t,g, ment. How many times do the heft offend in laveull things _? Thepleafurer,we take in thefe things,how infen_ fibly doth it Reale the heart away from fpirituall delights? howBoth it indifpofe the frameofthe fou'e toheavenly exercifes ? how doth it cherifh wrath, and fcaer unbrid- /? '1 pro. 23.41,3. led paffions ? Dainty meates are `very dangerous andde- - ceitfull : for the ,fenfibledelight they give, whereby the I appetite is inordinately moved after them, doth preffe ' downe the foule, that it cannot mount aloft in fpirítuall contemplation : Tilde evils faith doth wifely forefee and watch to prevent. 6. Sixtly, It liftethup the foule in thankefgiving. Our D:u:,s. to, Saviour blef}ed the Table as welt by praifing God for his Timq..}, mercy, as by prayer for bleffing. The creatures are not ours, but the Lords ; we mutt not meddlewith thembe- forewe havecraved leave : andwhen we have made ufe ofthem for fupplyofour necefíity, we muff not forgetto returne praife. If men borrow ought of their neighbour, when they bring it home,they forget not togive thankes. Great is the mifery of man if he want thefe outward comforts : and the greater our mifery without them, the more incomprehenfible is the Lordsmercy in fupplying our neceflìties. Theprovidence ofGod in miniffring dai- ly food is no leffe wonderfull, then was his feeding of 1fr.ed in the wilderneffe with Manna and %miles from Heaven:for_as wearenot fed as they were,foare we pre- ferved from their neceffity. That the earth fhouldyeeld her increafe for ourdaily futtenance, fo as we feeleno ex- tremity,is i tnot as great a bleffmg, as tobe fupplied from Heaven,when we are brought into dittrefhe ? who would notchufe rather never tobefcke,then to recover by mira- cle? what man would not rather enjoy the c©nfiant bene- fit of eye-fight, then to be reftored after long blindnefle ? Betides, they be not fimply favours which for the prevent futiaine WhRtit Faith touching the
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