Spiritual 'Peace and Comfort. 22 5. in Houfe, Goods, or other worldly things ? Do not worldly hopes delight you too much ? and much more your worldly pof eftions? Are you not too bu- fili contrivinghow to be richer, forgetting Gods words, i Tim. 6.8,9,17. Doth not the world eat out the life ofOur duties, that when you fhould be ferious with God, youhave left your heart behind you, and drowned your aftehions in things below? Doth not your foul !tick fo faft in this mud and clay, that you can fcarce fir it Godward in Prayer or heavenly Meditation ? Do not you cut fhort du- ties in your family and in fecret, if not frequently omit them, that foyou may be againat your world- ly bufitiefs ? Or do younot cuftomarily hurry them over, becaufe the world will not allow you leafure to be ferious ? and fo you have no time to deal in good earneft with Chrift or your foul ? Do not your very fpeeches ofChrift and heaven grow few and ftrange, becaufe the world muff firft be ferved ? When you fee your brother have need, doyouno: (hut up the bowels of your cotmpafions from him ? Dothnot the love ofthe world make you hard to your fervants,hard to thofe youbuyandiell with ? And doth in not incroach much on the Lords own day ? Look after this earthly vice in all thefe difco- veries ; fearch for your enemy in each of thefe corners. And if you find-that this is indeed your cafe, you neednot much wonder if Chrift and you be franger then heretofore. If this earth get be- tweenyour heart aed the Sun ofLife, no wonder if all your comforts are in an eclipfe ; feeing your Light is but as the Moon's a borrowed Ligk. 5 Anei
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