Bratoep Serp:ent,.4typece( icounterfeit humiliation can _ 4ke as hard heartedTaKind I as Pharaoh runne to Aloft: and Aaron,and beg prayersof them? P marneilous,thic;,g-then that of, fo many thoufands flung fo deadly, . fei feware fenfible; that few trouble A4y'èr.or_ the Minihers with`que[tions concerning their eaves. Some flung andguilty confeiencesnot fupported bÿ.faith,ititouch of(ih e'ááiàfeñce ofpaine (like. a Doe Ifhot withanarrow) runne every way but the right for eafel.Some with414 fend to thePhyfîtian to purge away melancholy. Some wit :Saul fend for mufick,effeeming foules fickneffe but a fottifli lumpifhneffe. Some runne into the houfeoflaughter and wicked playhouses to fee and heare the Lords Sampfns and worthies derided, not without haynous blafphemy;Others fall a building-with Cain,or fetuponother imployments,perhaps it is but,au, idle fancy. Some runne perhaps to the Witch ofEndor, in the meare time fend away 'Paul, as Felix, or runne again,} Mofrr andhis Miniflers. But comfort can they have none but fromGod and -his word : had not thy word (faith David) beenemy comfort, I had periíhed in my trouble. All the Phyfitians in the world, all the 'Mufitians and Magicians, put together, nor any other weaves could hei-pe a flunge rfraelire ; he muff come to errswhen hee-had done all-hee could. All other by._ comforts areworme eaten, and as cold water to cure a dropfie,or as a colddraught to curea poyfon. Some few 'there are that come unto us, who, we are fitre,had never fought to us.more then other, had they had fo little fence-oftheir fling as other have : as the Ifraelites had never come at 4 ofee, had they not beene flung. Let- ahembe comforted in that theyhavegone the right way to fetchtheir comforts, which is from God and his ;wordsand not from carnali menor councels. The Lordin mercy bath brought them light out of darkeneffe : for tittiehad it-beene they had wanted the fting.ofaffÿiai. on"
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