Make aUfetherefore of TryalJ, whether we be in the fiateof the Church or no, /Jy valuing ttndprizingthcprefenceof chriftinhu ordinances) theWordand Sacraments. There are many fond fickneffes in the world, there is Ammons fickne1fe, that was fiEke oflove for his fifier ThA.mar, his co~ntenance difcovered it, and vthab he is licke in deliring his Neigh· hours vineyard:You have many firange ficknef– fes,many fickewith fires kif\Pled from the fldh, from Hell, but few ficke of this fickndfe here fpoken of. . · If we find our [elves carried to Chrift, to run in that fiream as firong as the affections of thofe that are di-fiempered with lickndfe of the love of other thingi, it will difcover to us whether webe trulyL.ove-fickeor not. Take aman th~t is ficke for any earthly thing, whether of .Ab4bser Ammonsjickneje,or of any thing, take it as you will, That which the.foule u ji&keofin love,it thinksofdaily,it dreames of it in thenight. What doeaur foulesthereforethinke of-: what doe our meditations run after-: When we are in our advifed and bell: thoughts, what doe we moft thinkeof~ if of Chrift,ofrhe fl:ate .of the Church here, of Grace and Glory all is well, what makes us in the rnidft of all worldly .cHrco~tentments to thinke all dungand droffe in comparifon ofChrifi: ; but this fickndfe oflove to Chrift, ifour love be in fuch a degree, as it .makes us fickeofir,itmakes us not to heare what we heare, not to fee wllat we fee, not to regard · what ~97 f s B Jt. • XII. I "'ft. ) I.
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