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454 Of the vanity ofworldly pleafures. PCal.t9.to.8t Gods teftimonies were his delight and his counfellers; that 119.t4.24.97. he had taken Gods teffimonies as his heritage for euer, be- ro ;.Ili.tó% caufe they were the ioy ofhis heart, and that he reioyced in Gods word, as one that had found a great (poile. And there- fore when for his finne he had loft the fenfe and -feeling of this delight and comfort, it was not all the ioy and pleafure of a kingdome that would giue his mind contentment, but as one robbed and depriued of all his pleafure, he earneftly defireth God to rcflore it ynto him: ti'lakeme (faith he) to PGI. St.8. ta. heare ioy andgladnes, that the bones which thou haFlbroken may reioyce : reFlore me to the lay of thy plow ton, and flablifhme i,Chron.a9.9. with thy free Spirit: and elfe where, he faith, that except Gods law had been his delight, he /hould haue perißiedin his of l:/lion. So it is Paid, that when the people offered willingly towards the building of the Temple, they reioyced with great ioy. And thus our Sauiour Chrifttook fuchpleafure in doing his Fathers will,that itmore delighted him,thcn to eat his meat lohn 4.34. when he was an hungred; and his beloued Apofle profef- feth,that he tooke nogreater ioy in any thing,then to fee the fruits ofhis Apoftlelltip, and to heare that his fonnes, whom he had begotten vnto God, did walke in his truth. Which Iolt.epitt. ;.4. examples (if we had the like holy hearts and fan6bfied affe- ¿}ions) we would follow, weaning our felues from deligh- ting in worldly vanities, that we might wholly ioy in the Lord,and in thefe fpirituall pleafures;which ifwe would do, then fhould we find more cotnfort in this courfe, then euer the world could affordvitto vs; for the Lord would not giue vs ioywith a fparing hand ;but as the Prophet fpeaketh, we Pfal. ;e.8. fhould be fat isfiedwith the farnefe of hia hoop, and odwould Pfalm.89.15. mule vs to drinke out of the ricers of hú pleajures : yea then fhould we be, as he alto faith,eternally bleffed:for they who delight in the Lord in this life, they fhall find in his pretence Pfalm.r6.u. in the life to come,fnlnes of ioy, andpleafuresat his right hand far euermore. Cana,