Spiritual Peace and Comfort. 267 cannot be too clearly difcerned,nor tooRightly cho- fen, nor too Refolutely profecuted. Prop. 3. It is too pofsible to mu-apprehend the Means , and to place them inftead of the End and fo to Over.love them. Prop. 4.. The Nature of all the Means con- lifteth in a Middle or Mean betwixt two Extreams materially : both which Extreams are fin : fo that it is porsibla to over-do about all the Means, as to the Matterof them, and the extent of our ads. Though we cannot Love God toomuch, yet it is pofs;ble to Preach, Hear Pray, Read , Meditate, Confer of Good too much : For one duty may fhut out ano- ther ; and a greater may be neglected byour over- doing in a leiTer : which was the Pharifees fin in Sab- bath- hefting. 5 . If we be never fo right in the ex- tenfionof our Ads, yet we may go toofar in the intenflon of the Imperate Ads or pallions of the foul, and that bothon the Means and End : Though the pure Ads ofKnowing or Willingcannot be too great towards God and Salvation, yet the Pafsions and Ads, commonly called Senfitive, may. A man may thinkon God not only too much (as toexclude other neceffary thoughts) but too Intently : and Love and Delire too Pafsionately For there is a Degreeof Thinking or Meditating. and of Pafsio- nate Love and Defire, which the brain cannot bear, but it will caufe Madnefs, & quite overthrow theufe of Reafon, byover-ftretching the organs, or by the extream turbulencyof the agitated fpirits. Yet I ne- ver knew theman, nor ever shall do I think, that was ever guilty of one of thefe exceffes, that is , of Loving or DefiringGod foPafsionately as todifirad him. But I have often known weaked-headed people (that 1111=ww
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