Preston - Houston-Packer Collection BX5133.P7 N4 1634

' ' l ' ~ Inordinate .ddircs make .the hfeiun• :cqmforrablc. l .,. · ~ 0 F G o o·. s , alhes and coales, and fuc.h thing>; fo ·when·God giues a man an efrate,when·he ttompaffeth him ahoutwith merciesand:bleflings:onalllides,yet ifhe fuff~rfitch ·an inordinate appetite to take -bold ofhim,tO'deftrcfome odae'fhing,fum by– thingtb:at¥·atfefieth his foule, he may haue the hl~ffing,and·haueit prefent with him,and yet re;.. ceiue no comfort from it at all. Now,all this Bt• l~v,d,tends to this purpore, that youmay know tha~it is theLordthat giues al go.od &·evill,both in that the creature is at his difpoiing that doth it andnot fo onely, h:ut t-h~ efficacy ofthec~eatm·e (to exercife fuch anadofgood or evifto us that we fhould receiu eaCtual comfort or difcomfort · fromit)itis from him, andall,l fay, chiefly ari- – feth frotn that dominion that theLurdhath over · the fpirits ofmen, it cloth not!ye fomuch in the Creature, as in framing theapprehenlion ofthe mind,and therein is feene the truthofthis point Th chiefly that we hauenowdelivered) thattheLord . heo6=:h~- onlyisrhe Author ofgood and hurt,and notthe min~,maket.h Creature; bccaufc he guides the apprehen.llon; . ~:~t~:.r m•- for;~f!t hetn.~e, as it is mofttrqe, Aniimucuju.fit · . l &cttlsrhemmdandapprehenfionofeveryman ~- , that makethhis,life pleafanr,oritis:tbemindeof man that m~kethhim happyl andnot the thing,_. then thehordrharguides the~ind,and 'rha.t fa~ llJionsrhehearr,h<;haththeonely hand1n ma• king the lifepleafant.Whenchou haftgotten aU . ,~.thou wouJdefi haue,yet whatis that except thy heart be£1fhionedroit~ThisyouiliallfeeinPfo/.' ~ Pfa·J3•t3~~4· 33. z:he L'Ordlookuhlownefromliit d~velling, anti - fr~

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