296 Obfervat. Liles Apparition, and Mans IDiffolution. Where firft obferve, the Apoitle ufeth the word ofappearing, it is a thing ra- ther in apperance than in deed ; of (hew rather than fitbftance; fuch is a rapier when it firft arifeth, and breaks out of the Earth, it makes a great fwelling to the eye, as though itwould fill the air, and darken the Sun,. yet it hath no foliditynor fubftance with it, but iris a mcer empty tumor ; it fecros and appearsrto be fome- thing, but really it is nothing And filch is our life, it is rather alife in appearance,. than indeed ; andthereforeSainte-40in knew not whcther to call it a livingdeath, or a dying life : for truly it is another manner of thing that deferves to be called Life ; only that deferves tobe called fo by which the Soul lives to God, and by whichthe Soul lives hereafter with God ; that is the life of the Soul, this is the life of the body ; that is the life ofFaith, The life that I live is by Faith in the Sonof god: Hecalls not that life bywhich the body is united to the foul, but that he calls Life whereby the Soul is united to God: the Soul may be dead though the body be alive, ifit be a ftranger to the life ofGod, Dead in trefaffes and/ins, it may be dead while it lives , Eph. 5.14. s4aoake thou thatfleepefl , and arififrom the dead ,'and. are fhallgive thee light. He that lives in fin is dead in fin ; and the Soul lives when the Body is dead; therefore that cannot be the true life by which the body breaths, but that by which the Soul fubfifts ; if the Soul when it is feparate from the bodymay havehappinefs,and live with God,that deferves truly the nameof life ; but if it be a ftranger to it,though itlive,thatLife is a ,dead life, nay,the worft death the Scripture calls it thefecondDeath, where though we never die, yet we areever dying: the Life that we livehere, it is rather a thing inappearance than a being. . So all there thingsthat belong to thislife,ällthajoyes,and all the forròws ofit,they are rather appearing joyes,and appearing forrows,than truejoyes,andtrue forrows. Confider firft the joyes of our Life, they are not fount) and true, but falfe and vain joyes ; ifany wicked or ill thing be the objeet of joy, as it is oftoo too many, they rejoyce in doingwickedly, that is a falfe joy, they rejbyce in that they fhould forrow and mourn for : and not only wicked and unlawful, but worldly outward things, fuch as we May rejoyce in, honours, pleafures, riches, and friends ; yet-there being' well examined, there is no folid'true joy, but a vain joy in them, for they affordno rejoycingto the Soul ; it is only matters of fpiritual joy, the jay in the Holy Ghofl that the Soul rejòyceth in, andwith that joy the Soul is ravifhcd. though itbe berefcofother ; as again,theSoul may beovercome with fpiritual for- row, though there be abundance of outward joy prefentedto it, Prov.13. 14. onr joyes are but appearing joyes. Confider our forrows,and they are but appearing too,whether itbe lois acorn- fort that we forrowfor, or fenfe ofpain, being rightly examined, we (hall find that they be rather fhews than true griefs, for there is nothingcan bring ttue grief upon the Soul, but only the painoffin; nor no lofs can bring any true-forrow upon the Soul,butthe lofs ofGods favour: forrow bellowed upon otherthings,itisbutkoun- tericit forrow in comparifonof this; therefore in ¿lob. tz. tr. the Apoftle faith, that the chaftifements that we fuller here, theyfcemgrievous, andnet joyous ; they feern grievous,. asifall that wefuffered here were ratherfeeming than real ; andun- doubtedly.rhe Apoftle.faidright, for vvhatfoever chaftifement a man hath here, he may'poffible havemore matter Of joy thanof forrovv : to the famepurpofe theApo. file, z.Cor.9.8. ttvhere he dcfcribes theaffli&ed effaceof the Saints.(as God knovvs they-are Cubje& tomany affli&ions) he doth it vvithan, As itwere,becaufe he vvould viliñe the terror of it, and not grant their condition fo miferable as it appears, as it were dying, as it were wanting, as it were furrowing ; it is but as it vvere fuch as they vverenot : fo in.Ifa. 19. 8. the,Prophet there tells us hovv it is vvith a hungry man, and vvith;a.thirfty man, when he dreams; hedreams he eats, andbe dreams be'. drinks ; But it is only the fancy ofa dream, he finds it.!Lukeothervvife, he finds his ftomack as empty as his hand,fo it isvvith our life here,tt isnobetter than avvaking dream ; vvhere vve Rem to do vvhat is done, and vve Teem to be vvhat vve are : Saith the Poet,vvhat is one,andvvhat is another? Man islike a lhadovv ofadream; he that feems fomething nové ,. anon he falls and comes to nothing; and he that Items nothingnovv, anon he rifeth and comes to fomething. Thun
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