comfortable walking withGod. 171 'cloudesof temptations, mills oftroubles , and perfecutions, darkeneflé of melancholy ; yet it ordinarily breakes out a gainewith more fweetneffe and fplendour,when the forme is over : but howfoever, it hath ever the Sunne of righteouf- -nefle, andFountaine of all comfort , fo refident and rooted in the heart, thatnot all thedarkeneffe and gates of Hell /hall ever bee able to difplantor diftaine it, no more thenamortal/ mancanpull theSunne out of his.Sphere, or put out his glo- rionseye. 2. Ofpuritie. The edge and rellifhofcarnali joy, is ever much rebatedand imbittered with many fowre fauces, and envenomedmixtures; impatiencieofdelay, difficultie and danger in attainemegt, unanfwerableneffe. to foreconceits and expeaation , many fecret terrours , fretting jealoufies, difcontented indignations again( their difcontinuance and vanifhing, &c. And befides,.thofe three enfuing individual/ flings, which to an illightened confcience as infeparably and fenfibly dogge them at the heeles, as a fhadow the body in the Sun- thine; cut the very throat, and burft the heart ofall worldly pleafures. r . One ofthem is,as it were,naturall, im- mediately attending allearthly mirth, more melancholy and heavie- heartedneffe afterward. For as the Rivers of fweet water runne their courte todie in the fait fea;. fo the honey of all earthly pleafure ,. ever endeth in the gall of griefe. Voluptuoufnef e even in her deareft minions, ordinarily ex- pires with anguifh and anger that it is gone. The tranfitorie iiaíhes of fenffll delight , are like the light of a candle, axtrema gaudit, which leave at the doze a noifome vexing fnuffe behind'. 1u61us oee°tat' And that fweetneffe which fenfualifls fwallöw downe fo greedily, turnes to graveii in their guts, and at fare-well fills their fpirit with the returneof amore' heavie melanchu- Unit et rit to hcke humour then beforethe receit. 2.. The other I call a aliquid temporale temporary fling : for `all the waits of worldly a pleafure leetar`^d 'reftrowed altowithneedles &nettles, that I may ío (peak, li del, tatonie which ever andanon pricke and Ring her darlings, as theymajores dolores plucke her fading flowers. So thatat the befthey arebut like habebis, quàm Beares robbing a Wafpes lief fuavitates,lug.án who ra.venoufly rifle the fa 3' combes,,
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