, Plrt IT; 'A S4lnt 8r 4BrNit: 34>-:; or all things elfe, he is not God. If Heaven a11d Holinefs be not fwecter then all the pleafures of earth and iln, let them have no · more fuch honourable names . Let fin and e.rrth then be called · l'le~wen ; but wo to them that have no better. ' 2. Wh~t m•nftreHs ingratitHd~ is that man guilty of., th:~t whenGQa bath provided, andChrift bath purcb.itfcd fuch hrgh de– lights, and freely rend red them to unworthy finn_ers, will fay, I · find no pleafure in them, and take them for no delights at all ? · When the Lord eeheld tftlee wallowing in thy filth, al'ld laughing · in thy mifc.ry, and makinga fport of thine own perdition, he · pittied thee, and provided and offered to thee the mofi noble and · excellent delights, that thy nature is capable of enjoying : And :. wile thon cafhhem back unthankftllly in his face~ and fay,_They - are unpleafant tedious things? -Ifyour child did fo by his meat or · «:loathes, yea or a begg~r at your door did fo by his alms , yott would think it proved his great unworthyncfs: If he throw 'tiway – the ,bdl: you can give him , and fay , [ It is naught , there is. no · fweetnefs in it l W01:1ld yoa not chink-it fit: that w~tnt fhould help to mend his rt/Ufo;and cure hrs ingracitude? And will you do fo ' your fdves by Chrifi and Holincls, and fay ~s thofc , Mal. I. 13 . - What a wearinefs uit r Take heed Jell: yotJ provoke the Lord to caft yo11 into a flare in which you ChaH have more Gl.ufe to be · ,aweary; If you are weary of reading, and praying, and h.earing» . and other holy exercifes, and weary of heart-fearching, penitent meditations, will you not be WeR-rJerof He!/-fir-e, and of the ~o- , lorous reviews of this yo~r folly , ,and of the endlcfs, eafelefs ~ . remedilefs fcnfc of the wrath of God, and gripes of your own . felf-tormcnting confc1ences ! How juil is it with God to give · thofe men fomewhat that they havecaufe to be aweary of, that will be thusaweary of his fweerefi fervice, and rejeCt the great- – efl: mercies he can offe'r them, as if they were forne burdenfom · worrhlefs things .1 · · 3. Will you lutve tmy pleafsire- at ·all; ·or will pu have nrme ? ' ~f anJ, irJ who~u th~nwill yoti place it, and when re will you ex:ped: · H, if not from God in aholy life ? -If God be thy trouble, what then is fitto be thydelight' ? Darefi thou fay in thy heart or with · thy tongue; that fin and fenfuality is better ? Darefl rho11 fay that a good ·bargain, or other worldly gain, or cards, or dice, or or her fporrs, or eafe,or good chear,or an Alc-houfe,or aWhorel>· . .ate P~M]~Jti_tc_r_ ~bingu~en wrdk.irJg with thJ G11d in j.Iith an~ ho._ -- . . . . it»tfS:·;;' '
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