----~~------~~----------------------~ - '; N E1VV c 0 V E N A N t. J39 ftlue 5 . when your outward condition is bafe and low, that it is-more miferable; your happi.. nelfe ftarids in better. promifest ~ wh~n--· a man hath G~tim-· profperity :- that is, -when his fouleprofpers, that is his bell:-·condition·-;. andcom• Tile route monly his foule profpersbeft,when hts·o~ward f~t;.eGfomdlatefarestheworfi ; the winter-of ~is Oiitward· :,r:~:: 1_~w condition is ufuallythe fpring-rimeof'bis fou-Je ' we fhould learne to judge thu~. You know, it isan obfervable thing, thatthe promifesof out· ward profperity -were made to-the Church of God, whiles it was yet in its infancy, while it · was weake; fo that this you may obferve from; ir, that itis 4figne, of childifhnelfe and·weake.: ne1fe, and infirmity,.that a man is not growne AGgneof p.erfett, that he is not growne tQ maturity, tO wcakneticleo. thinke outward profpe-ritytobe the better con- =~~~:~eh to d-ition. The I ewes had thefe proinifes, butin thing,. · _regard oftheir infancy; and when the Church grew up:to a gr~at height, when it grew to manhood,as it were, wehave little mention of·– any fuch prornifes as thefe; the promifes are · q:uite of another nature; and- therefore when you are able to ·out-grow thefeopinions,.when – youare able to fooke upon things with another eye, when-you thinke this outward profperity to be hut a trifle in comparifon of· the better promife, it is ·a fig ne you are growne up to - more frrengrh .-. You fee Salomon, .when he . came himfelfe, when his wifedome returned ' to him (as I may fofay Jyou fee howhe looked on all outward things, how he goes thorowall · ~ the -----~~----~-- -·-
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