---- ------. .--. · --·-- - - -- ---- -------------~ Part.t.C.hap. .9. ~JfliEfed (onfcientes. --------------------------~----------- So this fpi~itual defire,planted in the heart by tl1e holy Ghofr,eates 'up and devoures, as it were, a_ll other defires,and over- eager 2ffetl-ions after worldly contentments, as worthleffe, vaine, tranfitory; as empty _Clouds, \V ells without water,_ Comforters c>fno Y:•lew. \Vc that dcale with afBiCl:ed confciences, heare m:my ti !'nes {ome expreffions of this impatient J . · \·iolcnt deGre in tmubh\ mindes. I have /Jorr..e nine children, faid one·, With ~-treat paine, I tbinkf:, as ' other\'i.>omen: ]'Would With a!! my heart ,harethema!l ever tt_(aine,and pajJe againe thorow-the fome intolera6le_ pan<~sevcryday, aolong,u I live, to be aj{url'd of my . part in JefiM Chrifl. Complaining another time,that J11e bad no hold ofChrifr, it was faid unto her : ~ut cloth not your heart deiire, and long after Him? Oh! 4 1 : . 'ayeJ' foe, I have an Hm6and and Chi/drm, ,.md many f . t 15 :;_ot a&pGorc1 , /":. _ . d atnt Wltntng VVQll. other comforts-~ 'I Would gn·e th~m all, and all the <~oo ding- •. Bu: a mtghty I fha!l e.verfee tn thu World, or tn th~ World to eo m!, to and df~ttuall de !ire, have my poo;-e thirfly (ou!e refirefot 1:\lith thqt pretiou; that dorh brir-Jg forth 6/ofJd ofl-ti&, t:;;tvc, anendeJvow.It makrs 6 I · · fi · d :1 r--.A--"\ . . t IS growmg, ram appetite to em eavour; 6.!t is orovvin ·•· from indeavour to aCl:ion ; from atl::ion to habite; 1.... __ ____::_v--" -..I ·from habite to fome comfirrtable perfe.::l:ion and tall- a ~lln put to_nh Himnes in Chrifl.Ifit be quite quencht and extinguil11ed fclf~,todl-ett the thing I 1 ·r. . . l ':L d . fl: d dd1red. Hewtiheth w w 1en t e1pintua at~gUlli.l an agony IS over,or an obey, as a refolate at afl:ay, never tranfcenqn~g the nature ·of a naked SoulJier wi01cth vi. wiib, it is to-be reputed rootletfe, heankffe, grace- tfory, Co :1s Hee will · leffe. There are C1Jrifl:ianstbat lye as vet,as it were, fight for tt, and draw fl:rugling in the wnmbe of the Churci1 ; who for a h,_s weapon, and meet · · 1 1 n. 1· .r. · • 11 1 b · · bs enemy m the face t11ne at t 1e eau, xvelpintua y, one y y gr!evmgs and haz3rd limme ~nd and groanes,by hearty de(rres,eager longmgs,and af- life, and oive and refetl::Ionatefiirrings offpirit,&c.1'here are alfo Babes cei•·e blo\~e s, & leave in Chrifl.;Yf!U11g men in Chrljl-,fl:rong men in Chrift, n?t hing u l) don~, elm ~ld Chnfbans. A perpetuall infancy argues a nul- n1s ~~t fcrve: h1m to hty offound and .fiving Chriil:ianitv, The Childe thh~flt<e of, fo ._ t_~ at. ·· h ~t: h n. J c 1evement ot v1~ ,ory. t at never pauet _the u.ature and fl:ate of an Inwhate!J, God> Huslt. · fant, wlll prove aMonfl:er: He that growes not by cap xi. · D d · the.
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