comfortablewalking withGod. 267 tormaiNINNIMillywormo, soft+some, Earth ? Ifhework; he makes a world ; If he be angry, he drownes the whole face of the Earth : If he love, thehearts- blood of his deareft Sonne is not too deare : if he nand upon his peoples fide,he makes the Sun to hand ftill,and theStarres to fight : If herepay, he gives his owne All.fufficient Selfe, with the over-flowing torrents of all pleafures and glory_ through all eternity. 6.Nay,the way to thriveand fare well in theworld,if our moft wife God thinke it fit, is to be compaffionate this way. If than draw out thyfettle to the hungry, faith theProphet,anel io. Sy fatiofie the afflitledfemle : thenAcid thy light rife in obfturity , andbreakeforth ou the morning, and thy darkenefe bee ord the noone-day ; and thy health "baldfiring forthjpeedily : the Lord fballguide thee continually, andfatt.e.fle thy foule in drought, and makefat thy bones, and thoufbalt be like a watered Garden, and dike4firingof water, whole watersfaile not. Thine borne"ball prai,.z. beexaltedwith honour, and thou'bait not want. It will be then Prop. 15.17. a profitable Inquifition amongft othe,rs when a man findes himfelfe togoe backward in his eflate,dodsfecret difpleafure to blow uponhis wealth,or affliahis bodywithpainful! dif- cafes, &c. to examine well, whether he was not ordinarily r Iohn 3 le woont rather to 'hut up hisbowels of companion, then to powre out his foule to the poore. In a third place, take noticeof the order of thole&leas, upon which thy Chriftian love is regularlyand feafonably to be direfted, and thyworkesof mercy difcharged. The Ca- talogue of them rfinneth thus, as Iconceive. , Thepublike state wherein thou liveft, and whereof thou art a member, challengeth the firft place and precedency : Ifahts. over bolds it lived a naturall lite, as thou doeft, andthou haddeft but one theyraryis,P:henother morfell of bread, which Would onely luftaine the life ofone twhbthalrebent'; of you ; thouwert to that it might fiourifh : for it is inpoverty elfe ever better, that one member should he cut off, then the maiLreeZie,:; wholebody confined. *In the next place 'lauds thy felfe ; neeeffity, before one owneparent.; inors din try wean ; tiler in piern, elre P *al helpe holy wen belie; fartheroff, before thofiwhobate to bee reformed enough neetIr um. inwagtail vela:Ions and obligation., one unto another: elfe we waft prelim a tingly religion* Pother, before a wore rektione Miler akinfinanott.gb6m,andbenefaaor, before eitberkiVitrath selebar, or oOmfattergore. then ,
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