comfortable walking with God. 291 able Pearles, as it is now with piles of Graffe. 5. Nature, faith a meere Moralift, feemeth in the fril; birth of Gold, and wombe fromwhence it. proceeded', after a fort to have prefaged the miferyof .thole that are in love with it.For it hath fo ordered the matter, that in thofe Coun- tries where it groweth, there growes with it neither.Graffe, nor Plant, nor any thing that is worth any thing : as giving us to underfiand thereby, that in thofe míndes where the defireofthis metal' growes, there cannotremaine fo much as a fparkeoftrue honour and vertue. Mtth.c.8;. 6. God is not onely a Father, but all() All-fufficient:Gaatth. Y. Why thouldeff thou then feare want, that fearett him? flee provides every day for millions of Fowles; Will he then he wanting toa Man, to a Chriftian, to his ovine Child? Chrift himfelfe prefling reafons to thispurpofe, tells us, that our heavenly Father cloathes the Lillies above Salomoni RoyaltyMatth.c.25.3cc. and feedes the Fowles of the aire, which neither low, nor reapernor gather into Barnes. What a curfedvale then of bate dittrnit darkens thine hard heart, that thou ihouldett either carke, or deale unconfcionably ? 7, One two honres fire will difperfe, and confume the hoard ofan hundred yeares heaping together. And where art thou then ? Thine heart then is feizedupon at once, with unutterableanguitlt, and thevery horrourofHell,for the lolle ofthine Heavenupon Earth; and with cries of blood, and furies of con fcience, for thy covetous, cruell, ufurious,inju- riouscourfes for manyyeares. Thus many aworldling fpins a faire thread to ftrangle himfelfe both temporally and eter- nally. 8. The Sunne isa very glorious and contented creature; andyet it harbours no golden Mine in its faire andrefulgent Body. The bleffed Angells are full of all felicities; and yet they have no flyer; they want noháppineffe, and yet they want gold. Heaven, the chicle and Royall Seate of Bleffed- neffe, is emptie of thefe treafures, there grow no Mineralls;. the V=ineof filver andgold isnot to be found there. The SonneofGodhimfelfe, infinitely themoothappy creature, I V fpeake
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