ectouo iitO the etnemy- world. Again, to advance this Grace, Faith makes a right judgment of Affli- &ions ; to Senfe thefe are grievous, but to Faith fit and congruous. The World in which the Believer lives, is a flage of Sin, and there- fore fit to be a place of forrow ; how calm fo..; ever it was before Sin entred, it is now a trou- bled Sea, an Ocean of Evils , as Antoninut calls an Empire: Storms and tofiing waves are proper in it, and to be expeaed by every Pal - fenger; as much a Paradife as it was before, it is now a Wildernefs, thorns and thi4lles of trouble grow naturally in it, and give many a fcratch and fling to the poor Pilgrim in his way to Heaven. The Believer himfelf as a Man is born to trouble, and altogether vanity, all -Adam irall-Abel, or vanity, as it is Pfal.3 9.5. He comes into the World weeping, and very fitly, becaufe by his Sin he hath fet the whole Creation a groaning until now : and as a Be- liever he lives as a lilly among thorn!, fo is his perfon in the World among wicked ones, which are as pricking briars on every fide s and fo is the Grace in his heart among the re- liques of Corruption, which are as thorns in the flefh : And whiled Sin is within,it is con- gruous that trouble fhould be without ; nay, more than congruous, it is necefíary upon many accounts. Afition is purgative of Sin ; it may be the Believers Heart mavwax proud, and the tumor muft be lanced, &r light, and the vanity mull be fanned away ; it may be hard, and the furnace mutt melt it or Brow- Li;
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