The Hidden Sorcerer, difcovered. 139 want, an emptine f , poverty and mifery ? and have ye not gottenHcrfes to ride far away from this guilt of conícience? haveye not with the Prodigal, gone out from your fathers boufe, and fpent yourpatrifnonyupon Harlots and riotous li- ving ? and nothing could ever caufe you to return : but though ye were never f, poor, and had fient all, yet you would joyne your felves to any thing in the firff place that mayappear as a rich Citizen, whereinye may not fear want; but for all this,your povertic and tnifery fill! comming more and more upon you , yam, rather then you will return home and di(-cover your folly, mferie, and nakednefs, will live upon husks, fhadorres,figures ; and they not being able tofill your belly, nor fiipply that infinite emptinefs in your foules , then you have been forced to return and come home unto your father,. emptie, naked, afhanted, miferable, loft, and undone. And till this be, there is not one of the foes of men ever can come home or return to their fathers houfe, not untill they have nothing at all left, no goodnefs, no love, nowifdom, nopower, &c. but fee that all thefe are in their Fathers houfe, and nowhere elfe : Being perfwaded that there is bowels of love, there is the rich robe , there is bread enough, there is the embraces, there is the Wes of love, there is thedancing and the melodie : Till this day comes, theProdigal is never received with joy, his Father never falls upon his neckand kiffes him. Beloved, I appeal to eve- ryfcule here this day, and to all the poor received Saints, and peopleofGod, if they have not found all tbefe things fulfilled in them, and a thoufand times more after this man- ner, more then ever can be expreft. Have all thy goings forth to this thing, or tother thing, been any other then Jonahs Gourd, to fit under the fhadöw thereof, to fhelter thee from the burning fun and heat of Di- J onah: 4: vine wrath ? examine thy heart ; Didíf ever take up any 1 ' dutie, anyform, any way ofwok/hip, purely for love to God, becaufe thotrfaweff him the faired! of ten thoufand, becaufe Cane. 5. that he was the joy of thyfoul, thy portion, thy inheritance, io. thy All in All : For till then, God is not thy God ; ifany other thing.be thought good or excellent but he, thou haft T2 not Ibid., a 5. 13.
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