Z20 General! direEtions for a neffe : 2. That greatefl plague, hardneffe of heart. L TheFather ofSpirits hath infpired into our immortal! foules a large capacity, and fuchan infinite appetite, that no finite excellencie, created comfort or earthly thing can pot fibly fill. Gold, filver, riches, honours, crownes, kingdomes, are no fit matter oradequate obje&, for fuch an immateriafl and heavenly borne fpirit, to repofe and feede uponwith finali ref¡ and full contentment. Nay, not this whole mate- rial! world, were it beautified and let out withall 'the ami- ableneffe, fplendour, and allurements, which thedevill byhis juglingAlchymieput upon it, when hee prefented k to the eye of Chriji Jefuf, 112at.4. 8. with addition ofthe [Tarry and Empyrean heaven,fhining with all their beau- tie and glorious inhabitants, could by any meanes confine, fatisfieand content the irkefome wandrings, unlimited de- fire, and var! comprehenfivenefie of the foule: but it would a Cot humanum (till be a tranfported with the pafiionate difquietneffe of in defiderio ester. niratis non fixum,felfe-vexation,and tortured upon the racke ofrefileffe m ¡labile content until! it faflen and fixe uponan obje&, infiniteboth poteit erre, fed omnivolnbilitate in excellency andendlefnefe,wherein is contained the whole vo 'ubilïus,dealio latitude ofEntit and oodnefe the ever-bleffedand oneiy- in aliud rran¡it, y g , quarensrequiesn, adored Trinity. Where and when alone, iffoftly and fweet- nbtnoa eft. Inhis i with the height and fulneffe of all defirable content- autem eaducis & 9a tanfiroriis,inqui- ment, reffs in the armes of God, and bofome of eternal! bus ejus affeftus blífle which all bleffed foules attaine thus, and by there captivi tenenrur, , veram requiem rneanes invenire non va- When it pleatedGodby the mercifall violenceof his Al- lee: uoniam tan. tæ et dignitatis, mighty hand, to turne the fenfuall bent and powerful! cur nr nnunm bonum rent ofthe feduced fouie from the creature, to the Creator ; grater tummum , Bonum,ei fuffce- from the painted braveryofthis vaineworld, to the heaven- . Tp°á 003, ly beauty ofhis bleffed Word; from carking encombrante about many things, topurfue and ply that One needfull thing; by a found and univerfaIl change of the whole man, and tranflation of him from the darkeneffeof natural! ignorance.,, death in finne, and power ofthedivill, to the Iight of faving knòwledge, the, life of fanaifying grace, and the living God I fay then, the reflleffe wandrings of the unf'aril Pied
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