Opened and Applied.. SECT. III. ' Firll,somerime the temptation is extream wane, as it was with rh~ Ifra.- e/i,es, when they wereunderrheoppreffionsof Pharoah; Oh to facrifice to the Lord in a wildernefs, and to enjoy the land of C anAt~n, where rhq Jhould have Ordinances, Oh they are much taken with this ! and many prayers and groans to be delivered ouE of: rh<:ir oppreffions; but when they came to the wildernefs, anq,rhere did want bread, and then water, now they mu rmur ; which murmuring God remembe>s, and cafl:s them off for: Had they not Ul1ofes, and the cloud, ~.nd God's promife, and experience, why did they complaint Oh ro bear want, they could nor ! extNam want is like lextream iickn~s1 it ma~es all fweet thin_gs t itter; fome wanes men can bear, · bur.not extremity.; du>. faddle doth pm eh fo·~ard ; fo rht young man, for-j (ak! all for me, fanh Chn~l, ?ut ~e·could nor; God and Creatures are enough, but nor God alone ; fo lt 1s W1rh .many a man, he can b! concem &o lofe fomerhing, bur when brought very low, cares and fears grow up and choak all. Secondly, Sometimes rhe want of fpirirual fupply; aman looked for much froM the Ordinances, and hnds it nor i nor becaufe the Lords heart is ttn:imed, bu~becaufe theirs arc: not enlarged ; and hence they have enough of God, and a it his Ordinatlces; they have had the heart of them, and now let them lie fallow, Zach.rr. my foulloathdd them, and thdrs me. Third!y, fometimes abundance ofoutward b!ellings, peace, liberty, plenty here; nowthefe things,likegroundinSunimet; 'cis fl:rotnge to fee what lufly weeds now there be, that did appear dead in time of ~;Vinter, 'I>rut.S.ii. Oh chen rake heed rhou forget not ~he Lord rhy God ; now proud and fecure, and forfake all. , Fourthly, Sometimes perfecutions from men: if hot and total ruine be rhrearned, this fca res from God. Fifthly,Sometimes cortllpt l'eachers and delofions among them. Sixrhly,Increafeofiniquity in good and bad1 in the place where men live; hence love \"<lxerh .;old : All which are Matth.Z4I will nameno more, bur thus mens common gtace comes to wirher, and dyein them; and the Reafowa;e rhefe. • SECT. IV. HEnce do not null: men too far1 nor boafl: of any man reo m~ch, efpecially in regard of his glorious profdlion and alf~Clions ar the fidl; God ttj'e 1 • fends divers of his faithfvl fervants to a: place, and man-y at lirfl: hearing are wrouoht upon, battered down, convinced, ffi'tmming ;~m·rer peace, going to Minifters , deli"ht in Ordinance!T; now tMny Mtnifl:a~ li:lers God for their converlion, ana many a Chrifli ~ n is put out of doubr of it, parents o£ their chiidren,and children of their parenrs,one btother Cif anorher,and one Chriflian neighbor of another; wh~m he got out once eo< hear, and once bearing over- ~ame; and for a time there is no mher ~ On take heed of boafling tCJQ much, tt may b~ they may and will fall (before they bav-e lived many years) down, when at their height: what man was ever fought unto m or~ than ?ohn? all J udea came unto him, yet at !ail: they forfake him, rejoyced but a feafonin tbat light; they went alfo from him to Chrifl:, [oh. 7• 26, 32· yer J•lm complains, none reI .i i , . ceived
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=