thestater ofOttaeating toChrift. vefï'eis which might finkdownint& their hearts, to fubdue their corruptions, and to quicken up their grace,theyhadnot thispower toframetheir hearts firongly towards the Lord, and to feed their profeffion with conftancy and perfeveranee to the end : fo that you fee what hee can fay for himfelfe; and me thinkes he fpeakes marvellous probably : The Lord bee merciful! tous, if a man goe thus' farm, and come tonothing, it is wonderful!, he is farre beyond the judiciouspro fellbr: Oh, faith he; I hada tallith of the fweet- netíe of the good WordofGod, and a ratiteof the heavenly gift, and my heart was ravifhed with the fight ofthe gloryofit, and I could even have gone to Heaven ; now you fee the belt of him. But now fecondly, what is the falfeneffe ofthis man, andwherein is his failing, andwhy : where he falls (hurt offaith, and what it isthat would makehim an honeft man : Nowthe fecond thing is this, that notwiehftanding the fudden pufhof thisman, heewill wither andwill turne hisbacke upon the truth, and commonly he is anenemy ro that truth to which his love was carried, and which was his chiefe delight; and thishee Both upen thefe twogrounds commonly. Firft, when he feeth the bitterneffe, andntife ry, andof li&ion, andvexation that accompanies theWord, bee is wearyof theWord rather than hewill beare thofeaflui&ions thatdoe accompany the Word; he will followour Saviour no longer thanprofperity followeshim : for he will rather 0o o 2 ,Lforfake 471
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