Ctlar,s, _ ¡pi/11e to the 7beffalovians. VEk. i6: 5o new ati..ofgrace_raifingvs : And at length, to fet vs out (Ache reach of all teínptaçiotts. Enjoy wrany göod grace ofGod, though in neuer fo weak e meafure ? Firft, he affures vs, that little es P a ezCor.i.sa. pledge of more. Secondly,cuen that little, he will enable. 9 to ;et fa =ull vietory. Thirdly, and to per fell it tv the day q Reuel.3. S. of the Lord Ie;ue: and after this life, to snake vs pure,as he is pure; perf 1l,as our heassenly Father is potrfeél. So many cáufes of couflant'ioy,are there to all Gods children. Where are they then, that charge on GodsSpirit,fuch adepch of forrow, and fàdnetfe- working in tht hearts of his children? and for this draw backe from entring Re- ligious courfes 5 becaufe their ioy, which as Epicures, they make their Idoll, they thinke all loft; applying that prouerbiall fcomme taken vp, Ithinke, amongli checups of Germanic, to Gods Spirit; Spiritus Caluinsanus eft Ipi- ritusmelancholicur.WWhat doe they lelfe than blafpheme, while they thus fpeake ? What ? when Gods Spirit pro - tnileth r ioy vnJ3eak able and glorious : when Chrift tells r 1 Per. 1.8. vs, of fioy that /hall nester be taken away :P Ay L, that as t Ioh.i6.zz. well ioy, as holineffe is the t fruit of the Spirit, [hall wee t Gal. 5.52. dare thus to fpeake? And is it no ioy thatGods children feelein pardon of finnes, peace of Confcience, hope of glory ? See them u Toying in of iltions ; triumphioog in death ; profcfiing more x fwecineffe sn experience of Gods fauqur, than Epi- cures finde in all pleafures theworld can afford them. This I adde more:: prophane Ep'cures heart is neuer free from forrow,either in fence or expectation, or in the caufe. Salomon [aid not for nothing, YIn the micideft of YProu.r4.r3. laughter the heart is heauy. Suddenly they are furprifed Dan. s C. with the Z terrours of death, and judgement: or if they z feele rot, yet they feare : or ifany haue to put from him all fenfe and feare ofeuill ; fa much the more caufe of forrow and lamentation bath he; becaufe God bath har- dened his heart, that hemay deflroy him. I fay
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