424 Chap. ro. An ExpofLion upon the Bookof ,j O B. Vert, rg. madewithout bands , they grew weary of their finoaky cottages prefently ; they could not endure to live in thole poor lodgCS,cer- ruptiblc bodies, having a view of fuch glorious.palläces , .here- fore he adds, In this we groan earneji-ly,-~defining to be clothed upon ravd1,14,Y with our houjè, which is from heaven. Theword fignifies.groan- ing, as a man that hath a weighty burden lying uponhim, which makes him fetch his wind even from his bowels. Thebody is the burden, rather then the houfe or the.clothing of the foul, when once the foul knows it (hall be clothed with an houfe,which is from heaven. As (I raid before) much of-he'll in this life makes wicked men weary of this life, fo allo doth much of heaven. Cie inTufcul. The Roman Oratonr tells us, that a young man, who lived in waft. deck- great profperity, having read .Plato about the immortality of the vibrato. foul, was foafleded, that he threw himfelfviolentl.y from a high wall into the lea, that he might have a.proof of that immortali- ty,by his experience of ..it. The Golpel forbids fuch hafte, and knows no fetch wayes to happinefs. As Chrifì ( not we) bath purchafed that elute fo Chritt muff lead us (we mutt not thrutt our (elves, into the poffeflion of it o but yecthe earnefts, the fore- taftes and fìrft-fruits of heaven, whichthe Saints,find in this life, ( though they be fuck as eat the marrow and fatuefs, .fuch as may have the very cream and fpirits of .the creature to live upon ) make them groan oftenand earnestly for the.next life.! hit it good, fist heaven is better. Latfly, Which is the cafeof this teat, the Saints may grow weary of their lives from the outward aflhiEtions and troubles of this life. Sicknefs and .pains upon the body , poverty and want in the eltate, reproaches and unkindnefs put upon our perlons, with a thoulànd evils to which this life is fubjeEt every day,caufe many to with and long for an end of their dayes. And though they are ready to fubmit to the will of God, if he have appointed them to a longer confliFt with thefe evils, yet they cannot but thew their willingnefs , yea their gladnefs to part with their lives, that they may part with fuch troubles accompanying their lives. And as the asiiidions of the body natural, fo of the body po- litick, may make themweary of their lives. How many inGer- many and Ireland have been fo wearied with hearing the voice of the oppreffour, that they have wifhed themíel.ves in their grayes, only to get out of their hearing, And with us, fince there
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