172, DireElions forgetting and keeping they flick not to him they will be drowned. Some of them upon this warning hold fart ; others are foboldly confident of his skill, and good-will, and promife,that they forget or:value not his warning and threatning, but lofe their hold : Some through lazi- nefs and wearinefs do the like. Whereupon he lets them fink till they are almolt drowned and cry out for help, Save us or Weperifh, and think they are all loft ; and then he layethhold of them and fetcheth themupagain, and chideth them for their, bold fol- ly, and biddeth them look better to them felves, and bold falter by him hereafter if they love themfelves. Some at Taft through meer wearinefs and weaknefs, before they can reach the bank, cry out, O I am tired, Ifaint, Iihall never holdAft till Ireach the fhore, Iihall bw drowned. Thefehe comforteth, and gives them cordials, and holdeth them by the hand, and bids them Defpa.ir not : do your belt : Hold fall, and I will helpyou. And fo he brings them all fàfe to the Haven. This King is God : Heaven is his habitation : The Subjeas are all men: ï he Sonswho are part of the Subjeas are the Elea : The raft are the 2Kon-Elea The River or Sea is the paffage ofthis life. The fur- ther fide, is all mens natural, finful diftance and fepa. ration fromGod and happinefs : The Ice that bears them, is thisfrail life of Pleafures, Profits and Ho- nours which delight the flefb ; The depth unfrozen is hell. He that ticeth them thither is the devil ; The eldeft Son that is fent to bring them over, is Jefus Chrift. His Commiffion and undertaking is, to help all over that refufe not his Help ; and to fee that the Elea be infallibly recovered and Saved.
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