1jleep. . IOJ fuch a cafe, that he flnll differ nothing from a re- SB R. UI. probate ; nay, hee may come to fede more then any ordinary wicked man feeles whiles he lives in the world ;as divers good Chrifl:ians doe. . And all this,through their carelefndfe,that they {ilffer themfelves to be robbed of firfl: beginnings, by yeelding to delights, company and contentments;feedingtheirconceits with earnall · excellencies, fo favouring corruptions, and flat- · tering, that that is naught in them, they lofe the · comfort of all'that is good: who would doe this (or the gaining ofa little broken fleep~I fay,broken fleep ; for the better a man is, the more unquietly fhall he fleep in fuch a fi~te,he lhall feele fianlings and frights in the rnidfl: of his carnall delights ifhe belong toGod. 3· Befides,God meets them with fome crof– fes in this world;that they ihall gaine nothing by it. There is none ofGods children that ever gai– med by yeelding to any corruption, or drowfi– )rieffe,though God ~aved their foule~. It is al waies 1 true, a fecure fiate Js a fure fore- runnner of fome · J'greatcrolfe,or of fomegreat finne. God cannot Iendure fuch a temper offoule, liveldfe and un– (feeling performancesand facrifices, to him that l,hath~ivenus fuchencouragemems:Itmuft needs lbe d1fiaftefull to G0d when .we goe drowfily and heavilyab~ut his -~ork~. Curft~ .u he !hat j Ier.48.to. deth the vJurke of the Lordnegltgently, tf 1t wer'e to ·{heath his fword in the bowels of his enemy·, to which man is exceedingly prone, yetifitbe not l .done with diligenceafld an eye to God,a man is : -curfed in it. H . .4· And : ·--- l,
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