Spiritual 'Peace and Comfort. 227 often to let hypocrites and other enemies 'go on and profper,. becaufe they have their portion in this life, and. the i'eckoning is to come ; yet I have oft obferved that for i_t.ods own people, or thole that he means to make his people by their recovery, God ufeth to crofs them in their worldly &fires and defigns : Perhaps Le may let them, thrive a while, and congratulate the profperity of their flefh, but at la1 he breaks in fuddenly on their wealth, and fcatters it abroad, or addeth forne crofs co it that imbitters all to them, and then asketh them, where .now your ¡dal ? and then they begin to fee their folly. If you do dote on any thing below, to the negleding of God, hewill make a rod for you of that very thing you dote upon ; and by it will he fcourge yòu home to h i mfe1f, 3. The third great heart-fin which I would .have you jealous of, is Senfuality or -Voluptuoufnefs, or plcafinf,s the fenfes inordinately. The two former are in this the more mortal fins, in that they carry more of the Underftanding and Will with them, and make Reafon it fell to be ferviceable to them in their workings ; whereas lènfuality is more in the flefh, and paffion, and hath oft times leis afsiftance, of Reafon or Confent of the Will. Yet is the Will tainted with fenfual in- clinations, and both Reafon and Will are at the belt guilty of connivence, and not exercifing their authority over the fenfual pav, But in this fen- fuality is the more dangerous vice, in that it bath fo ftrong and infeparabie ;a feat as our fen- fual appetite ; and in that it afteth fo violently: S and
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