theCloud is taken ofthe Tabernacle. ros more then they ? So alfo it is the true Nanna that feeds the foul, it is not that Manna that fell in the Wilderneffe; your ! Fathers they eat ofit,and are dead, faith our Saviour : No, ßh.6 it is thef#iritual Manna, whereof if a man eat, be 'hall live for J . 49 ever. Then it muft needs bea deceit of theDevil, and a we-: 50. ful and fad delufion on the fpirits ofmen, and yet notwith- ftanding this is that great delufion,wherewith Satan is gone forth to feedmen, as the Prodigal was, with the husks and dells of Divine things. He defined the husk and no man'; gave unto him ; But when the poor man had wafted thatpor- tion he had from his Father, when that divine portion was gone, and he had wafted it amongWhores andHarlots, that is, after his own inventions, thinking they fhould nouri(h him, he faith, he could eat Husks, But -he found they would not fatisfie; I, he fhould fterve for hunger ; yet ma- ny thoufands think, and accordingly do, could T go into fuch a Church-fellowfhrp, and walk as they walk, I ( hould be as well as they, and yet for all that, there is no manc¢ngive unto them ; &had he them to the utníof},alas they would not fathfne and fill him : But he cannot have that others have, he would have their Holineife, and be able to pray, hear, and fpeak, and have as much freedome and power againft fin and the like but it, is not given untohim ; but if he have all thefe external things, yet alas, they arebut husks, and cannot fàtisfie : So that then there is a plain and abfolute need-ay falls on him, and he fees there is no way but togoe home to 'his Father, elfe he -'larves and dyes : and now he fees Luk. 15. his own weahnefs andpoverty, then hebegins to come tohim- 18. felf, and faith,"will return tomy Father : So 'Alen the Soul is brought into this condition, then it fees that it is not he that bath brought things into any good frame by his good husbandry, or by a providential care now nothing will ferve his turn ; no, I muff tomy Father, and I will goe to my Father. This fhews the mifery of the fpirits of thofe mein that.would fain feed upon husks. And from hence it comes to pats that they run here, and run there,from one to another, even as a poor creature when it is thirfly and drye, and fees many Wells or Veffels, thinking there is water : He p runs
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