Part. 2. Cap. I • .AffliCled C onfcieneu;. .fii1ite skill mufl: take this in hand; or elfe never any cure or recoverie in this world, or the worl~ tp come. Bodily- aifeafes may bee eated, and moliified hy medicines : S~rgery, as they f~y, bath a fa~ve forevery {ore : Povert_y ma~ bee ~epatred and. relieved .by friends ! There ts no .1mpn£0nment wtthout tome hope ef enlargement. Sute and favour may help home· out of banifhment. Innocency and degleet may weare: out difgrace : Griefe for lofi'e of a Wife,.a Childe, or 0.ther deardl: friend, tf not by reafons from 1(_ea[on, that death is unavoidable, neceffary ;. an end of all earthly miferies, the common way of all mankinde,, &c. yet at lafUs leifened and utterly lofl: by length ot· time. Cordials of Pearle, Saphyrn, and R.Jthies, with. fuch like, may recomfort the heart poffeil: with melancholie, and drown' d in the darkenefle of that fad, and . irkefome humour, &c. But now nor the mofl: exqni- "fite concurrence of all thefe,.nor all the'lhiited abilities». _, whieh lie within the: O:rength and finewes of the arme· of fleih; can helpe any whit at all in this cafe. Not the· exaelefl: quintdfence extraCted from all the joyes, glo~ - rie~and ·plaafures, that ,ever the world enjoyed,. can procure-,__, or minifrer one jot of·eafe to a foule affiiCled in this ~inde:, and thus trembli~g under the terrors of God. -In fuch an Ago'ny and extremtty,., hadfl: thou; the utmofl: atde, and-an univetfall attendance from Ang'els and men ; .couJdefll thou reach the top of the: · mofr afpiring .humane·ambition,: after the excellency· and varietie of all woi:ldly feHctties :. were thy pofiefijons as large as Eafl:and Welt; were thy meat c~>ntinually c.Manna from heaven; ev.er.y day ,like the day €>f Chrijls ReforreUion :were thy apparell as cofrly am{ &dent as ~aronJ Ephod·; nay, ·thy oody doth'd · witl~: the beautie· of the Suime; ·and crowned withfrarres; yet for all this,. and a thoufand-more; thy hear.t within; thee w.ould bee as cold as a ffone;,flnd tremble,infinitety abov~ the -beitt:t of a woman.1\ entr.i'ng into tra_vell of c . . .> . . . her. · ' / . ' .....
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