Wherefore take unto you here when joy comesforrow is at its heel, ftaffe and rod go to- gether. lob himfelf, (whole profperity the devil fo grudged, and let forthin all his bravery and pomp, 706 T. Ice as if his Sunhad no shadow,) heare what account this good man gives of this his moil Ron tithing time, chap. 3. 26. 1 was not in fafety, neither had 1 tofi,neither was I quiet. There were tome troubles that broke his reit, when his bed was (to thinking) as foft as heart could with, even now this good man toffes and tumbles from one tide to the other, and is not quiet. If one should have come to yob and bleffed him with his happy cone dition, and faid,Surely, 74, thou couldeft be content with what thou haft for thyportion, if thou mighteft have all this fetled on theeand thy heires after thee, he would have laid, as once Luther, that God should not put him offwith thefe. Such is the Saints flare in this botcome, that their very lifehere, and all the pompous entertainments of it,they are their croffe, becaufe they detain them from their crown. We need nothing to mtke our life an evil day more then our abfence fromour chiefgoolfAhich cannot be recompenced by the world, nor enjoyed with it. On- ly this goodneffe there is in this evil, that it is Mort, our life is but an evil day , it will not laft long; and Pure it was mercy that God bath abridged fo much of the tame of mans life in thefe fait dayes, wherein fo much of Chrift andHeaven are difcover- ed, that it would have put the Saints patience hard to it, to have known fo much of the upper worlds glory, and then be kept fo '? long from it, as the Fathers in the firft age were. 0 comfort one another (Chriftians)with this;though your life be evil with troubles, yet 'cis fhort; a few fteps,and you are out of the raine. There is great difference betweena Saint in regard of theevils he meets with, and the wicked ; as two travellers riding con- trary wayes, (both taken in the rain and wet) but one rides from the raine, and fo is loon out ofthe thowre ; but the other rides into the rainy corner, the further he goes, the worfe he is. The Saint,he meets with troubles as well as the wicked, but he is foon out of the fhowre ; whendeath comes he has faire wea ther : but the wicked the further he goes the worfe; what he meets with here, is but a fewdrops, the great ftorme is the fait. 1 The pouring out of Gods wrath (hall be in hell, where all the deeps of horror are opened, both from above of Gods righ teous
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