374 InftruEtio1u for a right comforting _ red thy children together, even M ·a Hen gathereth h; Chick!ns under her wint,s,&c.Mat.z3·37· f!A'ndwhen he 'WM come neere, he !Jehe!d th~ (ity, and 'Wept over ir, [t!jing; Oh if thou hadJf k!zowne, even t.lmt, at !eaff in thi.J thy day, th~ thing.r \Vhich belong unto thy peace t Lu~.~I9 · 4I >42. In the lafl- day th;; great ?Jay of the Feafl,Ie[U5 flood, and'cried,fayinl,; If any man thirft, let him come to mee,t-~nd drill~.lol.J.7. 18. Experience of the comfotur recov.:red I o. Experience perhaps of the Comforter, converfrorn a worre e!hre ted from a more wicked and defperate courfe, then .then tht P.tc!eacs. the Patient himfelfe.And it d:)th not a little refi-efh ·the helrt ofhim, who grievoufly -vv.ounded in confcience~ and thereupon li:nding for a skilfull, and -faithfuUMe!fenger ofGod;and when he hath opened his Cafe fully unto him, to heare him fay, when he i :hath. .C'l}'d all: My (aft wMforre worft then yours eve~ ry \Vay: Nay,but beitdes thofe notorious fins, I have mmed unto you, I have defiled my felfe with many <fecret execrable hills. Be it fo, faith the fpirituall P hyfition; yet in the dayes ofmy vanity ,I have been guilty ofmoreand more hainous crimes, then any, you have yet (ooken of.' Yea,but even now, when I ·have mofi: need of,lhould moO: prize,reverence, and lay hold upon Gods ble£fed Word, SQn and Tromife.t; I am pdl:ilently peflered with many abhorred, villa~ nous,and prodigi'?US injeCt:ions about them. Not a man alive, replies theman ofGod, hath had his head troubled with more hideous·thoughts offqcb l1ellilh 'ta. That Par~ble of nature,then I;&c. the_ Pr~~igall. · I I. That pretious P ara6!1! Luf<: I 5. wherein all * Stcutt m aJele(cente I iC • f ' h· li Jtcoflm depinxit Lu- t 1ofe · lovmg ~a!fag~s o th~ Fat?er unto ts prol ~ ~a4 imeg'nem primum gall Son; to Wit, .Hu !JeholdmJ h~m;~henheewM y~t a peccatoru luxu per- f:l'eat \Vay off; hu compajfion, runnmg towards htm, dit~, Jei~de pec~a- fa/fin,.~ upon his nec~,kjJJl ng him, puttin~ on him the 6efl toru ~Jipt(centu: ~ta Robe, and the Ring, kj!!ing the fatted (alfo,&c. doe nur.c tn pare11te t]Ur 11 J h · r. b. · h {'bl 1 ;iJmag;inem im-ne11(-e cle· H1auow t at ·tmmealUra le, mcompre, en 1. ~ ove menlie &' miftricor- efGod the Father to every o~1e, that 1S willmg to come
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