®7 9 Chap. '. AMExpofitionupon the Bookof J Vere i S howwe can live .upon God. in Chrift, when we have the crea- ture : and that We ,may thew, howmuch we make ofhim, with- out whomwe cannot live, when we have all. things betide, him. profperity tries corruption, then pride and creature-confi dente breake forth, which before were undifcerned We fay, Magi- firacy. fhews a man, nature when it is exalted thews it fclfe, as much as when it is vext. d?aïet He trieth every moment : A moment is the iea(1 part and divi- odmomenra. fion oftime : Totry every moment, is to try not only . frequently, but continually : Hence obferve ; The temper ano1 fiate of mans heart is fo various, that there needs new experiments of him every moment; Why doth God try its every moment ? Becaufe weareone moment iu one temper, and the next moment in another : The acing frame of a mans heart this houre, cannot be colleted, from the frame it was in, an honre before ; therefore there is a continual trial. Some things if they be tried once, they are tried for ever; if we try gold, it will ever be as good as we found it, unlefs we alter it : as we try it to be,foit continues to be; But try the heart of saran this day,and come againe the next, and you may find it in a different condition; to day believing to morrow unbeleving ; to day humble, to mor- rbwproud ; today meek,to morrow paflionate; to day lively and enlarged, to morrow dead anp firaitened : pure gold to day, and to morrow exceedingdrou flie. As it is with the pulse ofa fick man, it varieth every quarter of an hour, therefore the Phyftian tries his pulfe every time he comes, becaufe the difeafe alters the fate ofhis body : fo it is with the difempered condition-of mans fpirit, God having tried our pulfe,the flare ofour fpirit, by crofts;. or by mercies this day, next day he tries us too, and the third: day he tries us again, and fo keeps us in continual trials, be- saxfc we are in continuatvariations : That frcknefs, and difeafe within us, alters the fiate and condition of the foulevery moment. Our comfort is, that God bath a time wherein he will let our fouls up in fuch a frame,as he should need to try us but once. Ha- ying let us up-in-a frame of glory, he (ball not need to try ours beartsfor us,ot toputus to the trial clout felvesany moreowefhali fand, as he lets usupto all eternity. I mutt yet come down from thethoughts of this bletfed eter- aity,-and flew you Yob tried out with his time, and.'earneftlg- talling, but, for a minutes refpite fromhis pail=and forrows,in th cruiser£ the nineteenth ucrf. Yerd.
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