74 The Try41l of not tell how to part with it, how to lofe filch a friend, or fuch a conveniencie, we would think our felves halfe undone if fuch or fuch a thing fhould fall our; Davids heart was full ofhumours, and needed purging , when he ventured fo much of his com- fort in his Abfalom alone, that when he was caft away, he wifht he had dyed for him. It is good often to try our hearrs, by fop- poling the wort} that can befall us. What if a change fhould come, fuch a thing I fhould be put to ; to fee how the heart can beare it. When Tome men have a Joffe in their eftates and riches, it is as it were rakedout of their bellies, as Zophar fpeaks, lob so. 15. and a piece even-of their veryheart goes with them. Fourthly, when a man is flat diftempered under varietyof con- ditions and bufinetfes, and is inordinate in them all, it argues much unmortifiednefie : As ifhe be to recreate himfelfe, he is in- ordinate in ir, and knows not when to end, and fall to his calling againe ; if to Rudy, then he is allo as violent in it, and entrenches upon the duties fhould keep up his foule in health, as allo upon the neceffary refrefhings his body requires. Broach the veffell where you will, if 11111 it runs muddy and thick, it is a figne the veflèll is full of ill liquor. To be diftempered in fome one particular is leffe, but when in every vein that is opened, much corrupt bloud comes forth, it is a figne-the body is full of hu- mours, and needs purging. A man that is in an ague, and when the cold fit takes him , he is extreme cold , and when the hot fit comes, he is on the contrary as extreame hot, it is a figne he is full of humours, which as they are purged out, one or the other abates, or both ; ifwhen a man äbounds, then he is commonly confident, and forgets God ; if when he wants , then he is as much on the other fide diftcmpered, and grows folicitóus, diaruflfull. Sound bodies cats beare fudden altera- tion of heat and cold, but diftempered weak bodies cannot. Nature cannot beare a fudden alteration, but much Grace can; I know how to want, I 1(-,:ow how to abound, Phil. 4. 12. He was much therefore mortified ; he could work hard in Summer, without much fweating, and he could undergoe the cold of Winter without catarrhs and inch weakneffes as others are fabjecî to; his foule was well purged ofhumours. And fo706 had tearnt.to bleffe God whenall was gone ; he was a man throughly mortifyed
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