11.1111111M C N A P.T. Epigle to the The/%alonians. V E R.B. 3 5 reaching to the infea&ion of many áfoule yet vnborne. This is Gods courfe ; the good is done before its rewar- ded : the euill committed, before punifhed. 3. Corpus pod corrxmpitur aggrarsat animam : owtid quaff cnjca, by meanes of corruption : ergaftulum,Carcer %nimx. How many deaths haue paflèd in thorough thofe windowes,by which the foule lookes out into the world? How hardly bath that mafle offlefh bin haled onto good duties? Slee- ping and turning vpon the Bed, as Salomon haggard, with modo and modo, que non habent modurn. It's lilt with God, to fay to it, in our Sautours language,Sleepe on now, ar..d take thy rea. Ly brure,fenfles, wormef-meat, till for the better p art fake, thou be row zed by the laft trumpe, out of thefieepe ofDeath : proportionally conceiue Rea - fonsof refpitin ; the full vengeance of-the wicked. The wifh is fweet of the Spirit and ßride,9Come Holy the according prayer of the EuangelilI; r Essen fo come Lord leius, come quickly. I cannot- but approue the exta- ticall defire of the Apoftle, that hce might r bee difJolued: thinke it, moll what, generally true of all Saints, that they t loue Chrifts appearing : would preffe the exhortation of Saint Peter, to u Often to the comming of the Lord : yet would perfwade all men, patiently to waite for the ap- pearing of that blef ed hope. I. Fulneffe ofGentiles is not yet come in. 2. Reftitution of lewes not yet áccompli- fhed. 3. Our feines are referued to doe more good, that we may receiue n:ore reward. 4. Venue of vs runs on in a continuall line, till the heauens be rolled vp as a fcroll, and that to augment our glory. I rnaruell not if Paul de- fared to be * clothed vpon with his houfe from heauen,fo ra- uifhing is the tafle of that,beatitude, yet doubt not but he daily receiues encreafe of joy vnfpeakeable and glorious, from the endleffe good infpired from God through him into vs, in the heauenly doo` trine of his writings and bief_ fed example of his life,left vs in record.On which grounds, I exhort all to patient- their hearts until the commang of the Lord: fo to long for, as yet they quietly waite for his blefFed appearing. D2 But Vfe I. v Apoc n2,í7. reo. f Phil.' 23. t 2. Tim.4.8. u a Pct.3.' n, * nCor.s.r.
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