2 O DireE1ions forgetting and keeping be able to do him but little hurt, and God but little fervice, betides thepleafure that he takes in your own Vexation. Nay, he will hope to make a further advantage of your weaknefs, and to keep many a foul in the mares of fenfuality, by telling themof your miferies and laying to them, Do/i tboa notfee inlied; a man or woman , what it is to be foholy and precife ? They¿ttillall run mad at : IJf once thou grow ,Vric7, and deny thyfelf thy Plea(ttrei,lná take the pa-tc,fe courfe, thou wilt but make thy life 'a mife- r7, aidnever have a merryday again. Such examples ran yours the Devil will make ufe of, that he may ter- rific poor fouls from Godlinefs, and reprefent the word and ways of Chrift to them in anodious, and unpleafing, and difcouraging fhape. Doubtlefs that God who himfelf is fo Merciful! toyour Body as well as toyour Soul, would have you robe fo too: He that provideth fo plentifully for its refrefhment , would not have you refufe his provifion, He that faith the Righteous man is merciful( to his beaft, no doubt would not have him to be unmerciful( to bis own body. You are commanded to Love your Neighboursbut as 'our Pelf: And therefore by cru- elty and unmerciful! dealing with your oven body youwill go about to J alit-le the like dealing with others. You durft not deny to feed, to cloath, to comfort and refrefh the poor, left Chrift íhould fay, You did it not to me. And how fhou!d you dare to deny the fame to your felt ? How will you anfwer God for the negleft of all that fervice whichyou fhould have done him, and might, if you hid not difabled your bodies and minds? He requireth that ,ou'Delight your Rif in him : And how can you do that
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