comfortablewalking withGod. -r..__... 167 Murfuit ofpleafures ? Confideration whereof, mee thinkes, ould causeChriftians, who alone are truelyfenfible of the interruptionand difconcinuance of their fweete communion and focietie with aria , and (mart niany times for the eflrangeialent of their thoughts and affections from God anely to have recourfe to recreations in cafe of true neede; for neceff'itie, I fay, and feafonably,even as they ufe phyficke, fomay they expe& Gods gracious proteetion from thehurt- full prevailingofthofe fenfual difiempers and licentious ran- Bing of their thoughts, which are wont toenrage and em- poyfon the minds and affe6ions ofcarnali men, all the while : and tomake account fo often as they are haled by the cunning enfnarement ofold companions., the tyrannie of former euftome, unmortified yieldingnefie of their owne deceitfull hearts, to immoderation and exceffe in this kind; fo often toexpofe theirhearts by Gods juts permifliion, as a prey to temptationandvanitie. Wherby theymay be in con- tinuall danger, either by little and little tobe drawnbacke, anddrownedagaine in the froth and fooleries of their difa- vowedpleafures,which were anhorrible thing;or elfe at leaft, tobring upon themfelves, from time to time, as they tranf- grefle in this kind , much unnecelfary difcomfort and diffet- tledneffe in their Chriflian courfe,dif rellifh in Religious ex- ercifes,deadnefle ofheart,difacluaintance withheavenly com- forts, loneofthatdeareft Thing,and earthly Paradife,peace of Conffience, which perhaps they (hall hardly with much aloe recovera long time after. '6. Sixthly, confider Chryfomes precifenefle agalnit Prafens tempos wailing time this way. Theprefer time,faith he, ùnotfor mel- n°" effunaendi gaud'', fed luaus eft,tribulationui,, & lamentationum Tu vera Ieviterurbanis facetiis jocularis; --- Diabolus dentibus ftridet, ac fro. mir, ignem fpirat adverfus falutem team 3 et to redes, facceias effundens ? Ludimus dileeti ?Vis dif- cere Sanetotum converfationem?AudiPaulum dicenteni :f er tvienriiom,inquit,noffs & die non de/liti cum lacryrun adrnenere unumquernque veftrum. Audi etiam quid &corinthiis dicat : Ex multâ tribulati- ene,inquit,d?.anxietate cord'sforipfi vans per =sites larhrymas. Et itentm : si infirmatur,& eso non in-' firmer ? f io offendirur, & ego nonuror ? Quin audi quid& alibidicat : iam & nos, inquit, yui fumes in hocTabsrnaculc gemimu,, et perfingulos dies, ut itadicam, ex hocmundo migrare coprente Apoflo- lo, Turides, et Iudts ? Belli tempos eft, pugna, vigiliarum, cuftodia, armaturaet aciei : --Ent' qua tripudiantium funt, ufurpas ? Non vides bella gerentium facies, quommodd tint triftes,corttra&a, fupercilüs terribiles, et horrore plena ? Videos aciemocolor= aufterum, cur excitatums (aliens es palpitans ? &c. Chryfall.in caps. ad Ekb.Serm.17. 414 sing ,
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