`t.fo- Rules in fee{ing aFfer Cainfdrt not make up that breach, therefore thou lilfenfl after that that thou heareft of in the:Go':pe! of Chritf ; and yet thou art fur- ther careful! of this, that whatioever rule may be propounded to make avainíl thy fin, or to further thee in any way of obecii- èiece to C:od, thy heart doll as greedily imbracethofe rules,, as tho:'e rules that make more immediately for thy Comfort. I would eNpretfe my ielfe in thi,; fimilitude,that you may more fully underhand what I meane : Many who have weak llo macks, and their nature almoll Ipent, they would faine have force ffi.its to refre.h them, and They are altogether for hot waters, they find themiélves cold, and want firength, and they thinke to take fuch Cordialls, and to take hot waters, becaufe they have more fpirirs and heate in them,and are more futable to their condition whereas the truth is ,. hot waters doe but burne them up, and fpoyle them,and makes them dill weaker and weaker, and doth but confume that natural heate that they have ; whereas a wife Phyfician when he comes and asks them what fuch a one tooke, why every day he drunke fuch hot wa- ters; why, faith.he, he hath fpoyl'd himfelfe, he fhould rather have purg'd oft the ill humours`ín the body; then take broath and other thins ;"'and though they be not fo hot,yet by degrees they will flrengthen nature, and then begin to nourish , and fo there will be good blood, and from good blood there will be good fpirits railed, and they.are the bell fpirits ; when one drinks hot waters,they may be ina flame and heate for a while,. I but that will not hold,but if one can come to have heate from good blood , that will hold, and fo the man lives and cones to be flrong : Thus it is for all the world in Chriflians ; there are force that are very fencible of their fin, and they would have all Comfort, they would have that which is altogether fpirits preached to them, nothing elfe but the very Name, ófChrifl, and Free Grace to them ; wells, it may be that may heate thee a little while, but the truth is, this heate vanifheth and comes to nothing, whereas the other, if he be a wife Phyfician for the foule, he will apply that word that may purge out the e- vil( from their hearts; that word that carries the life of fanai- 1ication, and walking with God in the wayes of holinelle, that fl ould
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