---------------------------------------- The tenth Sermonlt ·, CAN't. V. VI. I opened tomy Beloved, b#t my Beloved had with-. drawne kimfelfe, and w;a gone ; myJoule failed when ht fPake,I fought himbut couldnetjndhim, I I called him,but hegave no anfwer. ~~·--=~Hus we fee that the life of a Chri– fl:ian ·is trouble upon trouble , as . 1.,.,.:~.:o' .-... ~~ wave upon wave. God will not fuffer us to r.efi in fecurity, but one ~~~~:··way or other he will fire \1S out of our fl:arting hotes, aMd make us to run after him ; how much better were it for us then to doe our works cheerfully and joyfully~fo torem ;a we m"J o6tai.ne, then to be thus hurried up and downc, and through our owne default comming into de– fertions,and there receiving rebukes and blowes, and delayes erewe have peace againe, as it fell out with the Church in the fequell,for this Text is but the beginning ofher feeming mifery.The w11.tchmen after this, found her, and wounded her, &c. ButHeaven is rrtore worth thenall,now that her affeCtions are fet on fire, from thence i11e beI fiirs her felfe, is refolute to find out her beloved, S 2 whom \ ·-----··- -· .. ·--- --___....
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