The Soulet ofeáreallcaddärg to Chriff. 477 thedore ofhope; firft in the wilderncfie, and then in Carman ; firft in forrow,then in comfort ; the valley ofAchor-is the valley ofconfternat on, and then the doore ofhope, this is the way toward ZiQn,but this temporary hash invenred a newway to Z'on, hedoth as Ruffians doe, they will goe in the :oad way fo farre as they finde good way, but when they come intohad way, they breake over hcdges,and finde a newway,wherher lawfall or unlawful', theycare not; fodoth this man, he takes his comfort as Toone as ever it comes, hee (hatches at 211 the comforts ofthe Gofpell, and thinks they arc all his ocvne, and all on the fud- d n he is a forward profeifour at three or foure dyeswarning, and his heart fnatcherh at every Sermonof n ercie, and he is as good a Chriftian by and by, as many apoore foule whichhath tug- gedhard for it many ayeare, but his conlcience was never awakened, he never felt the butthen of his finnes, nor the wrath of God againft him forhis finnes : this temporarypromifes to him- felfenothingbut eafe, and peace, andprofperity, therefore when forrowes. and rroubles,andmile- Ties come, he goes awaywith as much (peed as he came, like Ionahsgourd, that came up fudden- ly,and withered as fuddenly : fo in the beginning of the yeare hee is a hot profeffour, and before the fall ofthe leafe he is gone againe; the wound of this manwas this, he wanted the workeofthe law, not onely that through-worke of the law, which none (hall have, but filch as have faich,but alto that legali worke of the law, which Mould PP p breake !i.
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