Spiritual Peace and Comfort. 265 Righteouffiefs , and done as a fervice ofGod , or Obedience to him , is h re called Oyer-much-Righ- teoufnefs. I know it is dark madnefs in the Prophane fecure World to think that the doing of no more then God bath commanded us, is Doing too much or more then needs ; as if God had bid us do more then needs or had made fuch Laws as few of the foolifh Rulers oaerthwould make : This is plainly to Blafpheme the Moil High, by denying his Wi - dom and his Goodnefs, and his Sufi Government of the World : and CO BI afpheme his holy Laws, as if they were too ftri &,precife, and made us more to do then needs; and to reproach his fweet and holy ways, as if they were grievous intolerable and unneceffa ry. Much more is their Madners, in charging the Godly with being too Pure, and tooPrecife, and waking too great a flit for Heaven, and that meerly for their Godlinefs and Obedience, when, alas,the belt do fall fo far (boa of what Gods Word and the neceflity oftheir own fouls do require, that their Confciences do more grievoufly accufe them of Negligence, then the barking World doth of be- ing too precife'and diligent : And yet more mad are the World, to lay out fo much Time, and Care,and Labour for Earthly Vanities, and to provide for their contemptible bodies for a little while, and in the mean time to think that Heaven and their Ever- lofting Happinefs there, and the efcapingof everlaft- ing damnation in Hell, are Matters not worth fo much ado, but may be had with a few cold wifhes and that its but folly todo fo much for it as the God- ly do : That no Labour fhouldbe thought too m f
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