PEACOCK. 207 F. What good shall I reap thence ? P. Nothing from bare hearing. F. You know the poor in spirit are blessed. P. I am not such. F. You see you are empty of all good : you feel your burden. P. I pray you, go your way. (He turned his head aside, and stopped his ears.) F. What though you have done but little good; yet, if you have only given a cup a cold water, in the name of a disciple, it will be accepted. P. Oh ! if God- F. He will give you grace. P. I doubt it. Oh God, give me a spark of grace, and enlarge my heart to, apprehend it. P. Oh, Mr. Dod ! I have no grace. Dod. I will not believe every one who saith he bath grace, nor every one who saith he hath none. Aman must not always be led by sense. You forgive your enemies and love them, and would do them no hurt, if you could. P. Yes. D. Then your sins are forgiven : an hypocrite may give alms and fast, but this he cannot do. P. That is a small matter. D. I think it to be a great one ; yea, such a one as I had need to pray for. That is put for a reason in the Lord's prayer; and if Christ had thought of any more forcible, he would have given it. P. Sir, that is true, in those who are elected. D. Do not you put an exception where God bath put none. I came hither to cherish you; and you love your friends. P. I cannot. D. Would you rather have bad or good men to be with you ? P. Good. D. Yet you say you do not love them. There is no fellowship between light and darkness. Doth your sick- ness or your sin most trouble you ? And would you have grace, rather than health ? P. Grace : but it cannot be. D. Do you desire to be saved ? P. Infinitely ! Oh ! if God would give me a drop. But I feel horror. D. Do not you search into the secrets of God ?
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