The ra1t Jtll~l o/Cbriftian Contentment. 199 can do this. Therefore when reafon can go no higher, let faith get upon the thoulders of reafon, and fay, I fee land, though reafon cannot fee it, I fee good that will come QUt of all this evil. · · E~ercife faith in thy often reugnation of thy felf to God, in giving of thy felf up to God and his vvaies, the more thou doH: in a believing way furrender up thy felf to God, the more q1.1iet and peace wilt thou have; that's the fifth thing. The Sixth DIRECTION. The fixth DireCtion for Contentment is, To IAbot~r to he {piritually minded; that is, be often in meditation of the thit1!$ that ar~above, If we be rifm with Chri(i (faith the Scripture) ltt us fee~ the things that 11re Above, where. Chr!J? iJ thAt fits At the right b~tnd of GoJ, Col. 3• I. Be much mfpmtual rhoeghts, in converfing with things above ; many Chri!lians that have :m interell in the things of Heaven, yet convetfe but very little with them , their meditations are not much upon Heavenly things. It is that that fome gives as the reafon why Ad~tm did not fee his nakedneffe, fome think that he bad fo much converfe with God,and with things above Senfe,that be did not fo.much as mind or think Qf nakedndfe what it was : but whether that were fo or no, .Y will not fay, but this I fay, and am certain-of, the reafon why we are fo troubled with our nakednefs, with any wants that we hare, it's becaufe vve converfe felinle with God, fo little with fpiritual things, the converfing with fpiritual thing~ would lift us above the things of lhe World ; Thofe that are bit or Rung with a fnake, it is becaufe they tretd upon the ground, if they could be lifted above the earth, they need n~ver fear to be flung with the Snakes tbat are cuwling undemeath: fo I may compare tbe finful diflempet ofmurmuring, and tbe temptations and evils ,that .come from thence to be like Snakes that crawl up and down below, but ifwe could get higher, wel11ould not be flung by them. A Heavenly Converfation is the way for Contentment. Tbe
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