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VE
R.3.
phefaan.r,Chap.
6.
685
for
wardncffa::
for
theythinke
that
it
is an
ill liigne,
they
willnot
long
live,
as
they
take ir. But
though God may take
a
good
child timely,
when
the Parentis unworthy,when God
feeth
that ftanding,hewould
be.more
corrupted,or
when
he wil
not
let him
fee
judgements
he
hath
to bring, thoughGod
may thus fowetime take
a
good child, yetobe-
dience
andtowardlineffehath the
promife
of
profperity
and
length
of
dayes.
And
it
doth
let children
fee
what
they
may looke
for
:
if
they have
3:
given
honor,good:
but
if
nor,
the
contrary judgments will
finde
them.
Note
hence
in
general],
What
is
the
true
way
ofthriving,
walking
in
pa.
2.
the. way
of
Gads.
cammandemcnts.
If
one
be
of
fuch force,,
what
is
the
confcionable, indeavour
of
yeilding obedience to them all Looke
Deut.5.29.
this-sólimon
often teacheth,; Wifdome
,
the beginning
of
which
is
the
feare
of
God,
bringeth length
ofdayes,
profperity, ma-
keth the
navel!
ftrong,fupplieth.the;bones,hath length
of dayes
in
one
hand
isprofper-ity,
in
another
is
a tree of life,
is
medicine.
to the
flefh
:
And
for
this prefent
life
nothing
is
fo helpful!
as
keeping
in
the
Com-
mandements, for
they
keepe us
from
all filch
things
as
are
hurtfull;
gluttony,
drunkenneffe, uncleanneffe , covetous care
,
inordinate al-
fè
tions,which
are
things
that hurtnot the
foule
onely,but overthrow
the
flare
of
our
bodies.
a.
They
doeteach
us
wholfomewayes..
3.
They
do bring
us
to
have further-
fellowfhip.
with himwho
is
our,life,
and
the length
of
our
dayes, whole
grace tatted
is
the onely
Cordiali that
can keepe us frefh and renew our age
;
we fce
examples
hereof
in
Deut. 34.7,
in Numbers
14.1o.
of
liaafes
and
Caleb.
Wherefore
this
doth
convince
the
moft,
as
takinga wrong way to
rf.
thewood
;
fome
feeke
Patrons onwhom they hang their hopes, fome
heape
up
money, force watch themfelves for diet, force by right
and
wrong
feeke
to
rife
to
force
elate
,
whereas the
only
way
is
to
keep
the.
Commandements
;
feeke
for righteoufneffe , this will bring all
things.
What.doe
men
for
their bodiese they
will
keepe.
diet,
ufe
me-
divine,
goe to baths
-in
the
moft remote parts
:
but
if
wee could keepe
us
dole
to God,
we Ihould doe
two
things
at once
;
provide for
thaw
life
which
is
eternal!
,
and attaine
a
better conftitution
of
body for
the prefent.
Ifone
had
a
trencher-Phyfitian, nay, could
command
a
Colledge
of
them,
they.could
not
all
doe that which
the
endeavour
to
walkealwayes righteoufly,will performe.
But three things will
be
laid againft
this
truth.
r.
That
many
wicked,
ones have
in
profperity
and life larger
por- obj.1:
bons then godly.
Aptfw.
Their
happineffe,differeth
as
much from
true,
as
a dreame
ofa
thing from
the
fubftance
of
it.
Againe,
Their
laft difh
doth
fpoyle the feaft.
Thirdly,there
is
a
fecret poyfon which
doth
kill
them,(even Gods
curie) in themidit
of
profperity. Some
poyfon
killeth
by
vatting in-
to
fleepe,
with laughing,
&c.
It