Spiritual Peace and Comfort. 241 and fee whether hewill fuller you to be lofers. Formy part I think, that ifChrifians took Gods work before them, and fpared the fleCh lefs,and trufto ed themfelves and all to Chrift alone, and did not balk all the troublefomcoftly part of Religion, and that which molt croffeth the intereft of the flesh ; "it would be more ordinary with them to be filled with the joys of the Holy Ghoft andwalk in that Peace of Confcience which is aContinual' Feaft and to have fuch full and frequent views bothof the ffnceri-. tyof their Evidencing Graces,and ofGods Reconci- led Face, as would banifh their doubts and fears, and be a greater help to their certainty offalvation,then muchother labour doth prove. If you flinchnot the fiery furnace,you lhall have the companyofthe Son ofGod in it. Ifyou flinch not the Prifon and Stocks, you may be able to fing as Paul and Silas did. If you refufe not to be (toned with Stephen, you may perhaps fee Heaven opened as he did. If you think thefe Comforts fo dear bought, that you will rather venture without them ; let me tell you,you may take your courfe, but the endwill convince you to the ve- ry heart,of the folly, ofyour choice. Never thencom- plain for want of Comfort ; remember you might have had it,and would not. And let me give you this with you : You will fhortly find , though worldly Pleafures Riches and Honours were fome flight falves toyour molefted Confcience here, yet there will no curenor cafe for it be found hereafter. Your merry hourswill then all be gone, andyour worldly Delights forfake you in Diftrefs: but thefe folidCom- forts whichyou judged toodear, would have ended iu the Everlaíting j oyes of Glory. When mendo flinch
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