45z TheSoaks e fe ualt cafe toChrift. Hours, nor parts, nor abilities, nor any outward thing, but in thepromife, and the prornife is the portion of ti-,e foule, and that by which it lives, and the frock of commoditie which the foule trades withal! ; as a mans trades and his lands are his livings; though haplyafriend may give him fomething elfe fometimcs, yet hee lives by his owne means. So the faithfull foule will take what Godgives, but it lives by the promife, and i by the loving kindneffe of the Lord, that s the mainelife and maintenance ofthe foule : as it is with a woman nowmarried to a man; you would account it a firange thing if thee fhould goe away to another womans husband to aske for herre- leefe, this is an adulterous wretch, but the wife goes toher husband,and iftherebe anyprovifìon tobe made, thee goes toher husband toprovide it; andif any debts be tobee paid, her husband mutt pay them, andhee muff pay all, and doe all, the relies her felfc upon her husband : So when the heart pretends great matters that it loves Chriff, andyet will have his backdoores,andbee mutt liveby his witsand his (hilts, this is an adul- terous heart : It is rather ofa harlot tohis !Lifts, ahanoof a holy chafte man, that is efpoufed to Chrif#: foit is with a faithfull foule; ifhebath any wants, Chrift fhall heare 'ofhim ; and ifany trouble or difireffe, faith fends toher husband, the Lord Jefus Chrift in heaven, and layes all the weight upon him ;ifany fuccour comes in by the way, the foule takes itthankfully fromGod; and inthemane time he livesby the prorate : as in. the
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