• / . ~04 lnflruEUonsfor. a right corr/ortin.g . . ScCl. i, . -----------~--------------------------------~--- tations·in the face oftheir confcience.s, and ~cqualnted ' ··with no· comfort but that whichcomesfromcarnall joyes.) continuall Clouds of many ftrange horrours, ··and gaO:ly feares, nay and fometimes makes them fhrkc mad ; I ·fay, the very fame in afanCl:ified man .may be ·fo mollified and moderated by fpiritua.ll de· :light, and foveraigntie ofgrace, that he is not onely preferved ftom the fiing and venome of them, but by Gods bleffing from any fuch defperate extremitiesJ violent difiempers, and difiraClions, which keepe the . other in a kinde ofhell upon earth; If the very aarknes ofthe helli{h dungeon were in the heart; yet reaching out the nand offaith. and receiving Chrifl that bleffed Sunne of righteoufi1effe, would difpell and diiperfe it to nothing: Much more me thinkes,the light of grace and heavenly wifdome, may in fome good .meafure, di!folve and mafier the mills and miferies of this earth:. ly humor. Religion then, and religious courfc:s•. and conformities doe not make melancholickc: men-mad ; . as the great Bed/a,n of this world would beare us in Wordl men l!ander. hand. For you .mull: know that befid~s Bttlialls and y debofht comparuons,there are a generation ofwor Idly wife men alfo, right brave and jolly fellows in their owne conceits, and in the opinion of !ome flattering claw-backs; But by tdl:hwny of. the Truth it fclfe, !l:arke mad about th~ fervice ofGod and their owne talvations, who curfedly feare their ·owne confciences · with the hottcfi iron in the Dhtels forge, by breaking out into 1l1ch blafphemies as thefe, when they heare, or fee.. any extraordinarieheavie-heartedneffe, temp· tation,difiraclion,or fpirituall difiemper,to have feizd ' upon anythatdefires to beefaved: 1ou Jeenow, wh4t ~cr1P.tute and preadt· 6ecomes of fo much reading the Scriptr.res, of pi.J';l. mg as caufes of me• - d · d · · h fl h J f 1 h 1 bat are praJer, An prw~tte r~tus 'Wit o muc INDe; o me • anc (,) y, N.ifg with myfteries .of Religio1z; of 'f!letfitatin_~ fo m11ch ofhettvenlJ thtngJ;~f ta~ing finr~e fo duply to heart, and bJiding frsch ftria conformitY tl GoJs Word, (foe, Bld- / . fed
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