comfortghlewalkingwith God. 355 are more loth to enter into the wayes of life ; prejudging them tobe thorny and rough, darke and deepe, full ofdumps and drooping, of heavineffe and horrour;whereas indeed and truth, they are all paved withmercy and love, firowed with Violets andRofesfull offrefh fprings of fpirituall comforts, and feetly illightened even in the darkeft paffages , with heavenly and healing beames of the Sunne of righteoufneffe. For whether it bee fit to beleeve the Spirit of all truth and comfort; or the fcornefull fpirit of impure drunkards, and Satans Revellers; judge you. This precife and ftria wal- ob.* king, fay they, which is preffed uponus with fuch importu- nclleivagirkrr, nateneffe, and confidence, wouldbut lade us to mopifhneffe oreti,E215.11;. and melancholy ; would enchaine us to that abridgement of our pleafure, refiraint from company ; from crowning our felves with Rofe-buds, and former courfes of good fellow- fl-Aip and mirth, of which our generousand Ioviall fpirits are b Psrff-c7;p3i7Loum moil impatient, andutterly uncapable. But what faith the Chrian noTite ti. bleffed Spirit ; a Her wayes are wayes ofpleafantnefe e and all grfeeftaadtP43 herpath; arepeace. They give them occafion tomif-conceive, leve eft.Non con that the yoke ofChrift is burdenfome , and will gaule their nreenlacto II air neckes : whereas in truth and trial], it is h eafie and light, and ratiffnQ2jd Pro- foules ; that aftefthey have given their names to profeffion would proove a chineof heavenly Pearles to adorne their alligat arcisertviNce°: Lemirsatir they (hall never have merry day, but muff neceffarily bid laecn: &c. adieu to all delight : whereas their joyes fhould not be taken de HAI es; away, but onely changed, as one of the Ancients fpeakes ; coanPu.s p2 r and that moil happily, and with an unvaluable advantage. receire, tuavi plenum.rn CeO'ry'ng For the filth and froth of their fenflail bitter-fweet plea- fures,fugitive follies, and furious delights,whichpaffe away ii21,2'0,7atr,..tilmauuracl.fah: in theaft, as the talkof pleafant drinke dyeth in the draught, fhould bee turned into that true unconquerable fpirituall fluat'anii: joy,which the Worldcannot give, nor man, not divell take Pull exortarn5c1 away. c Their crafhes of loud laughter amid their pots and pa (limes , which are but as the cracking of thornes under a cre'ent° 3 fed c- pot , the Divels Wakes and Muficke for Hell , fhould bee cnnailluimratiieneriainuilivsol; converted in a fweete , conflant , habitual! contentment of minde. Nay more; whereas before in the veryheight and mu,h. carnal A a ruffe
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