200 fSonle.tortu- rtng grief. t PG 1274 in 1 Kin.si. n PC' ia.to. 6. tinfucccf% fullneftè. o Gen.27.15 p ver.42,43 qGen,26.t33i4 r Cicn,t;.tc, ,1.' tGen.l4.22. Soul- anguifb, unfuccef jefullne f fe. by his meanes they fhould lode their prefent jurifdiftion;felf- feekersare very uncharitable in their conftruc`tions of other .mess purpofes andundertakings. Self -feeking creates much needles, unhappy andfoul-ter- turing friefe, and anguifh in the hearts of f:lf f ekers, like gall in the cup, a thorne in the foot and ftrong v Inds in the Sea, it imbitters their eftate, troubles their walke and makes their inward mana very tempell ; it makes their food bread oft forrows, their bed a bed of thornes, and their day a day of clouds ; felf.feeking 1ha6 is so ficke, upon his bed for want of Naboths vineyard ; felf-feeking Pharaoh is grieved becaufe the Ifraelite multiplieth the felf-feekers in the Tfalmïf? are grieved, ngnsfhwith the teethand melt a- way to fie the prof erity of the godly and the fruftration of their owne delires ; every felf.feeker is a felt-tormentor, he that is given unto felt= feeking needs none befides him- felfe to moleft and vexhim ; he carries hïs executioner ftill within hire. 6, Self-feekingufually provesunfuccefJefll, the event doth contradia their expetation ; Rebeccaout of her ftrong af- feaion foughtby finifter meanes to get the U bleffing for7a- cob, fhe waited not for it in Gods way, (he obtained it in her owneway, and when fhehad procured it, how fared it, the was greatly cro(ied, Efau purpofed to P kill 7acob, 9acob is feat away and becomes a firanger tohis mother; the crof- fes of felf-feekers ever exceed their comforts ; Sarah was ve- ry defirous ofchildren, theLord reftrained her from bearing, The q gives her maid :Hagar toher husband, but what was the iffueofit ; Hagar conceived, and Sarah Was defffifed in her eyes, the birthoffelf feekingproves uncomfortable, the felf- feekers intended inftrument ofconfolation, turns to an inftru- ment ofvexation ; Lot r beheld all the plain of }ordan that it was well wateredevery where, and he chofe itfor his habi- tation, and pitched his tent toward Sodome ; But it came to pafe that the King of Shinar with three other Kings, t took Lot and all his foods and departed, thus was Lot croffed in . his choife ; the chiefeft worldly fullneffe is often attended with the greateft croffes, and men meet with moft difquiet, where
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