7 4nElegant and lively Vefeription, tability in their lives, they lay downe their re- ligion as occafion ferves. If that they did was done in refpea to God, it would bee al- wayes the fame,their companyand occafions would not alter it ; but becaufe it is not done in refpe t to God, therefore as their compa- nyand occafions are mutable, fo is their re- l'náe 12. ligion. They are a incox}`tant as Clouds without raine,that arequickly fcsttered; like wandring H©ra64. Stars, or like the morningdew , that is foonc' dried up. The Saints have an ineq ualirie in their lives, yet they never die againe; they 3 lade n; may be ficklyhat thefi men aretwice dead,trees pluckedup by the rootes,that nevergrow againe: The Saints may bee as fheepe foylcd with a fall, but they can never become Wolves a- gaine, but thefe men they turne Wolves a- gaine, fo did Pharoah and Saul. The Saints have their Thrbida intervalla,their ebbingand flowing, their full and their waive; but yetall there cloudings doe but obfcure their graces not extinguifh them : the darkeneffe of the night extinguifhethnot the light of theStars, but coversit; fo doe there cloudingsbut only cover the graces of the Saints. All the good- wifeofother men that feet= to live, are but Lucida intervlla, they are good but by fits, when as thofe that live are had but by fits, NullumPlum e.JJ diuturnwn, their goodnes is but counterfeit, therefore it lofts not, it holds not out, Another
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