i 68. Genera directions fora ting into mirth; but for lamentation and mourning. Andyet doefi thou vainely mif -Bend it in merry. conceits ? The Devil! gnaflieth the teeth, roarer, andfoames, andflafhes out fire a- gains thy falvation;, and doef# thou fit Jill andjovially jeft it out? Doe weplay and/port ourfelves,Bcloyed?Wilt thoulearne theconverfation ofthe Saints? Hearewhat Paulfayer,A& zo. 3 r . By thef fiate ofthreeyeares Iceafed not to warne every one night andday with teares. t Cor. 2.4. Out of much of ftittion andanguifb ofheart , Iwrote untoyou withmany teares. 2 Cor. 11.29. Who is wealZe, andI am not weake ? Who is ofended; andIburne not ? 2 Cor. 5.4. For we that are in this- Tabernacle, doe groane being burdened And the Apole defiring, that I mayfo fpeake, every day todepart this life; Doeft thou laugh andplay ? Our time heere isas a timeofwarre, ofight, ofwatch andward, of harneJng , offîanding in theface and fury of the enemie; anddoeft thou demean thy felfe like a dancer ? Doeft thou notfee the faces of Souldiers in the fight ; howfad they are, how contraEted, how terriblewithfrownes, howfull of hor- rour ? Doeft thou not behold the auftere piercing intention of their ties , an extraordinary excitation of heart, leaping and panting in their brefis, &c. His meaning imports thus much:: both an ordinarySouldier in the field againft a mortali man an earthly enemie, recoilea and unite all the fpirits and pow- ers ofbody and foule with all efficacie, and earneffneffe, for the encounter : And (hall a Chri han Souldier that wraf}les not againfi flefh andbloud,but againft principalities, againft Powers, againft the rulers of the darkeneffe of this world, againft fpirituall wickednefles inhighplaces; who is every moment furioully affaulted and hunted even like a Partridge in the Mountaines, by the devilsopen rage, the ambufhment . of theWorld, and the endleffe treacheries of his owne falfe heart, trifle away his time, and turne alide to toyes 4. No incrochers upon heavenly comforts;. no dimmi- (hers of our light in God;. no devourers of fpirituall joy. For this isavery deare and divine thing, to bee prized and preferved as a fweeteand celefliall Iewell, farremore worth then heaven and earth; which the world can neither give,.. nor
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