netiouo tail b. í%f, and the rod muff awaken it. One ill hu- mour or other is, ready to grow upon us; and 0 felices tribulos tribulationum ! Oh happy thorns of Affliaion, which let them out ! If Me- dicine be neceffary, fo is Afi ±ion, which is Spiritual Phyfick for our peccant Humours. Afidion is the way which Chritr hath fanáfi- fied by going in it himfelf to the Throne of Glory ; and Believers mull follow him whi- therfoever he goes. Innocency it felt fuffering, Iumps of duff and fin cannot but do fo. He drinking up the full cup of Wrath, well may we take a few drops of it ; efpecially feeing our fuferings are fweetned by his ; and his Héaven will be ours at laf, , where the light mo- mentany fufferzngs thall b'e remunerated with an eternal weight of hyperbolical Glory. Luther faith of himfelf, That looking on the Suffer- ings of Ch "riff, he counted his own as no- thing. And St. Bernard makes Chriii, Et fpe- culum Patiendi â pretium Patientic both a glaf of Patience, and a reward of the Patient. Now we are tolling and tolling at Sea, but the port of Bills is within ken, and anon we (hall be there: In thé interim we may tafle Heaven in the Joys of the holy Spirit, which (beds abroad the Love of God in our Hearts, and fo gives us Premium ante præmium,a leffet Heaven before a greater. Saint Paul faith, ti pvreetarivo¡iat, I fuperabound or overflow in joy in all our tribulations, . 2 Cor.7. 4. Philip Lan:- grave of Hefe being. asked, How he Could en- dure his long tedious imprifonment under the. Ern-
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