He foedeth among the LiOles. 471 (weetnejeover Jong_,I JeeallmJ [ormerlifl (that I SER.XX. thought had fw~h fweemdfe m1r) WtU nothing at all hut hmkes,empty things>now I knowwherefweet. nejfe is,it is in theW~rdand'Truth. Therefore ler us not mifconceive of Rel igion, as of a mopiih ~nd dull thing,wherein we mufi lofe all comfort, ifwegiveourfelvesover to [he ftudy thereof; mofi we fo~mufi we lofeour comfort~ Nay,we ' have no comfort till we be religious indeed ; Chrifi feeds not his among thornes and bryars and ftinking weeds, but among Lillies;doft rhou thinke hee feeds thee among i.mfavoury, hadh, fretting,galling things~ No, hefeeds among Lil– lies. Therefore when thou commefi to Religi-on, thinke thar thou commefi to comfort, to refrelh thy {ouie, let us make ufe of this for our foules comfort to make us in love more with the waies · of Clclrill:. ) Nowrofeale thisfurther,feewhattheScrip- Howchriflt'he ' ' r · ·h · r 1 11 1 •t:t · 1_ true Shepheard 1 ture 1a1t m 10me para e p aces, PJa .z3. T fJC feedr, uf urtber i Lordis my Shephtard, and what IS theufe that DA· explained_ ·'Vidprefentlymakes hereof~ Why,IJhall want no. thing, he will feed me plentifully& abundantly, the whale Pfolme is nothing but a commenting · upon that word, the Lord u my ShephearJ, how doth he performe theduryofa thepheard '? He ·makes me to lye downe in greene pa.flures, and/e~ds · me by the JiiU waters, iris noronely meant of the body, but of the foule chiefly, he res1oreth my foule, that is, whenmy foule languiilierh and is ready to faint, he refiores .it, afld gives me as it were a new ftnlle~he refrdbeth it. We fay recr~- anon
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