comfortable:valk gwithGod. 1.5 yond our felves andbeeing) ,Another.frettingly feares,that he íhall be undone ina Beare' yeare,or the next R.-tit ílieepe and tires himfelfewithvarietie of plots for comníings in,for many yeares to come, when many timeshe dies in the meane time. Some take uptoo-much precious time, from prefene and more profitablemeditations', by troubling their hearts, 1eí1, :if the times turne , they`fhouldnot beeable to endure the fierie triall ; whereas afterward, perhaps, they end their life in the peacefull noone-tide of the glorious Gofpel. O- thers upon thought, ortdke ofdeath, are ready to entertainë fearefull apprehenfions, lea they fhould`difgracetheir Chri= than life with anuncomfortableend, and by Tome extraor- dinary temptation, raving, furious courage, lie open to the worlds interpretation,finifer cenfures, and mitconítru&ions of their former courfès ; when as after, itmaybee, they con- dude their daies calmely, in good memorie to the"la'f gafpe, without any forme, or cloudof feared lorrour and difcom- fort; (except formali diflruUful fearesjuflybring upon them that which they feared.) For.fith every one, whofe life kath Beene confecrated toGods glory withtruth of heart,` Both certainely pail thorow thofe dreadfuli pangs and 1aí1 paine; into pleafures endieffe and unfpeakeable bee ought aifo to fubmit with all patienceand quiet, to glorifie him, andto be ferviceable to his fecret ends, with what kind of death bee pleafe; whether it be, i. Glorious, and untempted : 2. Dif comfortable, by reafon of bodily ditfemper, and by confe, quent, interpretable by undifcerning fpirits : 3`, Mingled Of temptations, and triumphs: 4. Or ordinary, and'without any great flew, or remarkable fpeeches, after extraordinary fingularities ofan holy life, which promifed an end of"fpec= all note and obfervation. 2. For the fecund, befides tliefe utterly unneceflary and meerely imaginariemiferies ; many fearefull fpirits.efpecial= ly hauntedwith the humour of melancholy, will iotfuffer alfo certaine and inevitable evils, which at length tnùf ïee'ds befall them, to tleepe, and keepe in their fings 'until! the tithe appointed but many times 'awake them by'the crie of
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