comfortable walking withGod. hurt by ill,or want of good. He is incomparablymore wörth then tenthoufand worlds, were they all extant. If thouen joyelt then finch a Jewell, what a curfed vanitie is it to tor- ture and teat thy heart with feareof any earthly lotlé, or of ever being prevailed agaii,ft by any created power? Take yet more fpirituall armour andHeroical! refolution, again1 theaffaults of this cowardly Tyrant, which cloth fo unwor- thily afflia the fpirits ofmen, not o.nelywith imminent ills, but allowith thofe which are not, and perhaps lhall never be, nay fometimes, which cannot pofrbly bee, out of thofe two fweetetlPfalmes, for promifes of future protection, gr. and 12 r . Efa.43.2. But the fpeciall prefervative, whichat this time I would commend unto you, againil this diffruff- full hearts-poyfon, may bee extraaed from Chrifts owne words, Metth.6.34. After many.flrong and precious Argu- ments againft thoughtfulneffe and corking , our heavenly Doctor concludes, Take therefore no t estghtfor the morrow r for themorrow Ad take thoughtfor the the things ofitfelfe:fuf- fcient unto the day, is theevil!thereof. Whence I collet and counfell, that the Chriftianought,in refpe&ofany torturing care , or corking forecaft, to unite and confine his thoughts, theworkings and agitations of his fpirit, to the mannaging of theaffaires,and mattering the miferies of the prefent day. The flrongefl mind and bell compofed, is weake enough to fultaine the brunt and encounter of every dayes crones. Temporali troubles , or fpirituall temptations , fightings without, or terrours within, are the certaine portion of the Saints in this vale of wares., And what day fo faire comes over the Chriftians head, wherein he fcapes Scot-free, as they fay, herein ? Sith therefore every day brings foorth forrew fufficient for the exereife of the retiredf prefenceof themofi recolleaed fpirit, and the heartiefl man {hall have his hand- ful!, inpafing.patiently and profitably thorowprefent trou- bles, which many times fall as thicke upon him, asone wave in the necke of another; what abate and unworthy weake- neffe is it, tounfit and difable our already too weake minds, for a comfortable difpatch, and digeftirtg of daily uncom- fortable 109
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