'• L-·--------------------~---- Injlr"NCiions for aright comforting sea,,. Pall:imes, Playes, Muficke, Gaming, merry Companie, Ioviall meetings of good-fellowihip, Tavernes Ale-houfes, Vifites, Entertainements, improvemen~ oftheir chiefe carnall contentment, &c. If not to Wifards, and even to light a Candle at the Devill for lightfomnefie of heart. Thus I know nor, wherher with more finne or folly, they endeavour to come un· to therrifelves againe, by the mirth and madndfeof · W ine,earthly joy,carnall counft:ll, &~.Wherein they are not unlike thofe bloudy Jfraelites, who while they burnt up their Children in facrifice ta Molech, s:-wl h f: c ifi d filled their ·cares with f noife of infiruments; left ~hei:~~nts :J t~i~ ]~~!,by the rufull ~~ies of their li~tle ~abes, they lbou.ld be · they did beate upon mo\·ed to pttle, ~nd fo fiated tn rpe cruellfervtceof TabrttsandDtummes, that bloud.:fucking Idoll. JuH: fo thefe men of plear~a~ the_ cry of the fure and perdition, do finfully feeke to fiop the guilCh1ld m1ght not bee 1 · · f h · d r: · • h h · h~ardby the Father. ty c amours o_ t _etr vexe comc!ences 'Ylt t _e Godwins Mofos ;:znd comforts oF t~ts. hfe, and fenfuall JOY'· while thetr Aaron, Lib. 4• cap. 1· foules are facnfictng to Satan, and maktng fit fewell for the fire of Hell, lefl: by littening to their cries and controlments, they ihould bee ftirred up to take compaffion of their owne poore immorrall Soules, and fl:opt in the purfuite of their lugitive follies, and delights of fen'fe. But alas 1 in fo doing, they are alfo like aMan in aburning Fever, whalers downecold drinke eagerly and merrily, becaufe in the extremity of thirfr, it cooles Him a little; But aftet· a while, He fhall finde the heat, the paine, and the danger all doubled upon Him. Earthly pleafures may, for the prefent, frill the noy(e of an a.ccnfing Confcknce, and feeme fomewhat to allay its guilty ra.ge; but a!fured· ly they will afterward kindle fuch a fire in the Bew· els of thefe miferable men, that will b1 .1rneeven to the very bottome of Heli, and blow them up B0df and Soule with irrecoverable ruine for ever. Hee that goes ab.o~t, to cure thewound of his Co;1fcience for finne with fenfuall delight, is as if, to helpe the toothake
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