Tbe Soak' effcauaB caE7arg te Chriík. 565 &uarie whichGod fent from heaven, but they tooke fireof their owne, that is, their ownedevi- ces, and imaginations, and didputes ; thefparkles and pleas of your owne thoughts, they areyour owne fire; every poore creature carries his tin- der box about him, and is anvilling and forging his owne conceits : I thinke it not, I conceive it not, I amnot perfivadedof it; this is yourowne fire, that is the firít thing : then markewhat fol- lowed), walke in the light ofyour fire, and in the fparkes that you have kindled,you thall lie down in forrow : walke in the light ofyour fire, Hee dotb not allow this, but he takes it asa thingfor- lorne, as who (hould fay, You will follow your owne conceits and imaginations;you haveham- mered out fparkes, andyou will ftrike fireout of your ownecarnali reafonings, and you will bee taken afide by them; there is no reprovingof you, there is no removing ofyou from it : fo that two things arecleare: Firft, the heart will coyne carnali reafons, and forge finfall conceits, and then it will perfift in them ; and marke what fol- loweth, this is that which you (hall have at my hands, you (hall lie downe in forrow; thiswill bring forrow to thy foule, when the fire oftl-e fan&oar)? burnes cleere,when comfortsare plain, andScriptures arepregnant, and reafons undeni- able, you will kindle your owne fire, and cotn- paffe your felves about with your owne fparkes, and you will attend to them, and bee ruled by them; well,doe fo : but this I tel! you, there is no hand thall fuccour you, an3 bring comfort unto Cccc you,
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