17 8 DireEhonsforgetting and keeping they Rejoyce, efpecially in fuch cafes, they have molt fenfible Joys, and when any fears arife, they have moil terrible forrows.I know it is not fo with all ofthat fex : but mark the fame people ufually that have the higheft Joys, and fee whether at other times they havenot the greatelt troubles. This week they are as at the gates of Heaven; and the next as at the doors of Hell. I am lure with many it is fo. Yet it need not be fo if Chriftians would but look at rhefe high joys as Duties to be endeavoured, and Mercies to be valued : But when they will needs Judge of their Rate by them, and think that God is gone from them, or forfaken them, when they have not fuch joys, then it leaves them in terror and amazement. Like menafter a flafh of lightning that are left more fenfible of, the darknefs. For no wife man can expet that fuch Joys fhould be a Chriiki- ans ordinary flate ; or God fhould fo diet us with a continual feaft. It wouldneither fuit withour health, nor the conditionof this Pilgrimage. Live therefore onyour Peace of, confcience as your ordinary diet, when this is wanting, know that God appointeth you a fait for your health : and when you have a feaft of high Joys, feed on it and be thankful but when they are taken from yrou, gape not after them as the Difciples did after Chrift at his Afcenlìion; but return thankfully to your ordinary diet ofPeace: and remember that thefe Joys which are now taken from you, may fo return again : howevet there is a place preparing for you, where your Joys (hall be full. 10,IRE-
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