, .. · ,105 The lrnmulabilieyof Gon. So that they {hall faile thee as a l~S,ld }loud doth Summer,as tob faith ; which dries up inSummer time, and yet that is the time :of dlidl 1 even fo · ·. will they faile thee in the time af need : and the like m-ay bee faid of all things el(e, fo that Iree whofc comfort doth depend upo them,hath but AdetJC:ndancJ a dependant felicity,wbich is like the motion of felieity-~o mills and ibips, which ceafe when the water or I truftia erea- • d r ·1 h b1 h 1 wm · 1a1 es t em. But yet as muta ea5 t eyare. ,,. .tl.lrCio • repa.ire toG1d"and heecan put aconftancy unto them.Applytbi&thereforeunto thyfelfe: thou livefi:now, and art in health and wealth ·, in fiteh and fuch a place,and fuch circumA:ances, as may continue it; theonly\Tay toell:ablith thee inall this,is to goe toGod, and to befeech him to put a fiability into thy condition: For the creature, as it is made of nothing, & built upona founda~ .cionof nothingifo it is apt to return to not hing. And remember this, that the more retired, aad weaned, and fearefull thy affe&ions are about a· .ny thing, fo that thou canftfay in good earnell:, _ If Go o wilJ,I tball enjoythem to day,and next 1day, bq.t11iswill I know not, I knmv not how I long I {hall enjoy them; if thou cantl: fay thus, thou {halt hold them the I onger, and the fafier, for that is a figne that thou dependell upon Gorl, , · . ; and not on the creature, tha.t ·thou nufteft him, Vfe 5.' andart notfaftned to it. ;~~~~:~~gc If this bee fo, then unchange~tVtmrji'e is an ex– by their un· . · cellcncy inhim ;. for all hi,s Attriblltes areex- . ~~~~g::~;;,e eefodinghe.xce~Jenht. WThen 1 difthhou woul1efl:kju~t:e . &c. ; 1 o any t· 1ngm t e · or , t ou muu. ra e t1HS I I as
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