Spiritual Peace and Comfort. 177 ceffiry in them then. Goal hash done, or to think them to beordinary things, if you do but fed filch an high eflimation of Chrift and Heaven, that yon ould not leave him for all the world, rake this for your fureft Sign. And if you have but fo much Pro: bability or Hope of your intereft in him, that you can think of God as one that loveth you , and can be thankful to Chrift for Redeeming you, and are gladder in thefe hopesofyour intereft in Chrift, and U1ory, then if you were owner of all theworld ; take this for a happy Mercy and a high Confolation. Yet I mean not that your joy in Chrift will be al- wayes fo fenfible, as for worldly things ; but it will be more rational, folid, and deeper at the Heart: end that you may ,know by this. You would not for all the Pleafures, Honours or Profits in the world be in the fame cafe as once youwwre (fuppo- fing that you were converted fence you had the ufe, of Reafon and Memory) or at lean as you fee tho ungodly worldRill lie in. 3. And let me add this : Commonly thole that 'have the higheft paflïonate ¡oyes, have the faddeft lives : for they have with all the molt paffionate fears and furrows. Mark it, whether you find not this prove true. And it is partly from Gods Wilt in his difpenfutions : partly from their own 'leaf- fries, who after their exaltations doufuallyneed a prick in the flefh,and a meffenger of Satan tobuffet them, left they be exalted above meafure : and partly and mof commonly it is from the tempe- rature of their bodies. Weak pafiionate women` of moveable fpirits and firong affeEtíon§ when they Love, they Love violently, and when tivev=
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