comfortable cvalkistg with God. 219 bee lift. Now ibis very day, this fame fellow thus long fsaffered in his difalute and riotous coteries, hatb in his drun&en humour wiek, dly offered violence to his mother great with child?, would have violated hisfilter, loath l lled bis father, and wounded two ofhis fillers to death. Oh mightie domination of the Devill! & c. But Ineedenot profecute this point by further illufiration out offtrangeStories.Daily experienceprefents untoour eyes and tares themany wofulldifcomforts ,unkinderequitales,. and unnaturall..ufages, which Parents receive at the handof thole children, which in their younger yeeres they made wanton with their love, andundifcreetly doted upon. z. Or in fome other kinde; forexample : Ifthine heart be let upon riches, God may juiily, and mercifully too, exercife, and . affli& thee with his heavie hand ;. upon thy body,with fick neffe; upon thy confcience, with terror ; upon thy reputa- tion, with difgrace, or the like, thereby tounglue thynoble fpirit from theduff, and rent it from grovelingneffeupen the earth. If thou be acbitioufly enamoured upon honours and high roomes; after wafting thy wealth, wounding thy con- fcience, wearyingthy felfewith briberie, bafene fe, and irke fornewaiting, thou mayeft be taken away untimely in the very purfuite, or prefently after the attainementof them, &c. Thusit isnot firange or extraordinarywithGod, toprevent, ortake offour heartsfrom taking felfe-conceited pleafureor pride in any thingwe enjoy, bycrofling and corre&ing us in otherkindes. Even Patel, that bleffed Saint and fervánt of. the Lord, left his heart (houldbe toomuch pleafed, andpuft upwith abundance ofrevelations ; hewas vext and croft with his o`vne concupifcence, there was given tohim a thorn in the flefh, the meffinger of Satan to but him, 2 Cor. i2.ß. that is,asIconceive, hee felt his originali corruptionlharpened, andeneagered againfthim, and let loofe in fbme fort upon him : which is a terrible cur to a tender confcience. 3. For the third, howfoever itfare with thee otherwife;. if thou fettle thineheart upon any earthly thing with inordi- nate defire and delight, thou fhalr be fare to be hauntedwith a double caurfe : t. The rage ofunfatiableneffe,unfatisfiable,, neffe ó
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