so Q. 8. Can it be any good Sign if you can recreate your Selves with that which is so great a grief and burthen to your Ministers and many of your fellow Christians because they look upon it as sinful O! How tender should we be in this Point How fearful should we be of grieving or offending any of our Brethren for whom Christ died He is very tender of them and so much the more as he seeth them tender of his Honour and grieved and offended at Sin whether in themselves or others Q. 9. Tell me truly how doth your Card's relish with you when you are in the most serious Frame When you find the great things of another World impressed upon your Spirits in the most fresh and lively Manner I verily think if I should fall to Card's one serious Thought of Death and Judgment one sober Glance at my eternalState would spoile my Sport how is it with you in this Matter If you must needs play on will you make trial the next time Q. 10. To add no more whether will the remembrance of so many Hours spent at Card's be pleasing or tormenting to you when you come to die And whether will it be a comfortable or a sad hearing from your Judge when you come to give up your Accounts we must account as strictly for our Time as for any other Talent we are entrusted with and the Day which God hath prefixed for this solemn and weighty Affair is drawing nigh Death may be upon us before we are aware and when we shall see our selves ready to be arrested and summoned to appear without delay before God's great Tribunal Then if ever Conscience will be reflecting upon our State and Actions and when it shall find so much precious Time at best but lost and trifled away which should have been spent in glorifying God and working out our own Salvation what chideing Language may we expect to hear from it I am ready to tremble sometimes when I think what my own Conscience may have upon this Score then to charge me with Alass poor Creatures We make a shift to stop its Mouth now or to stop our Ears But if the Lord awake it then it will speak and so loudly as shall make us hear whether we will or no O Fool 's or somewhat worse that we are thus to lay in for our own tormenting Grief and Sorrow Now shall we not be wiser for the future and live more like to dying Men O that we could bring our Hearts to this before we venture upon any thing to think seriously with our Selves will this be comfortable to me at the reckoning Shall I like to hear of this another day from my own Conscience or from the supream Judge of quick and dead Now if there be any sense or weight in the Questions I have here Propounded I hope you will not think it an unreasonable Request if I again earnestly entreat for your serious Thoughts about them And that you would not proceed farther till you can answer them to God and your own Consciences one thing more with which I conclude You cannot deny but it is doubtful and disputable whether this Game be lawful or no Whereas I dare affirm and could if need was sufficiently prove on the other hand that without doubt it may lawfully be forborn and this is a good Rule for your Observation here In dubiis opportet sequi partem tatiorem In doubtful Cases we must take that way which is safest Since the writing of this I am satisfied that a Lot may be lawfully used in Games as well as in any other ordinary Affair and that your extraordinary Lot cannot be lawfully used in any Case how weighty soever except Persons have a divine Warrant for it But though I see and am ready to acknowledge my mistake in this Point yet am I of the same Mind I was before in reference to my own Practice here and I could heartily wish that all Professors especially would be very wary how they meddle with a Game so ordinarily abused and that is so full of Snares and Temptations that without extraordinary Caution they may as easily touch Pitch and not be defiled as make use of it and not be some way or other insnared by it PIOUS LETTERS LETTER I. To C. F. under her Sore Relative Exercise June 28. 1684. Dear Cozen I Have been much concerned for you in my Thoughts since I saw you last I would be one of those that weep with them that weep and remember those that are in Adversity as being my self also in the Body and God forbid that I should not tenderly Pity and earnestly Pray for you in this your afflicted Condition though I have cause sadly to bewail it that there is so much of wretched Self in me which goes so far with me that while I am at ease I am little affected with the Hardships others undergo which plainly shews how far I am from the Life of holy Love There is a saying of wise King Solomon Prov. 27.9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart so doth the sweetness of a Man's friend by hearty councel O that I was in a capacity and had ability according to my hearty Desire to write or speak any thing which might tend to your Direction Support and Comfort O what pains should I think too great keeping within the limits of my calling to be laid out any way to promote the good of any poor Soul which my Lord and Saviour did so esteem as to think it worth dying for And seeing you have been pleased in a great measure to open your Case to me whom you shall ever find very faithful I will humbly adventure though I am very conscious of my own Inability to do it effectually and verily I think I have more need to come to you to learn as multitudes of Years encrease Wisdom and Experience yet I shall give you my poor confused Thoughts what we should learn from and how we ought to carry under afflictive Providences and I hope you will accept of my sincere Desires though I fall very short in Performance in the day of Adversity consider A day of Affliction ought to be a day of great Thoughtfulness with us consider God doth not Afflict us willingly without there be great need for it and he hath wise and gracious End 's in what he doth His Rod when ever laid upon our backs hath a loud voice in it O that we had diligent and tractable Hearts in hearkening to and obeying it Learning some spiritual Lessons from every the least twig thereof O what abundance of spiritual Good might we thus extract out of our greatest Evils And what a multitude of Strokes might we thus prevent And that you and I may be so wise let us put the following Particulars into practice 1st See we more and more of the evil of Sin and hate and mortify it Sin is the greatest Evil and the procuring Cause of all those
a sad complaint of the disaffection of our Souls towards God he is breathing out nothing but love and joy and praise now he had perfected Affections and a perfect sight of his Aimableness and continually enjoyeth the sweet embraces of his Love it s a thing impossible for him either not to love him or to love him with such remisness coldness and inconstancy as poor unworthy we do and perfectly to love God and to be beloved of him this perfect mutual and joyful Love I think is the highest happiness the Creature is capable of O blessed Soul How pure and perfect are his Joy's What shall I say to these things O that I could feel more He hath changed his quarters indeed Glorious Angels and Saints are now his Familiar's his continual Associates which when he beareth a part in those heavenly Songs of Praise to him that sits upon the Throne and to the Lamb for ever and ever O blessed Place blessed Work and blessed Company In a few words as he defined it to us while here he is now perfectly freed from all Sin and Misery in the fruition of all good being perfectly restor'd to God's Image and admitted to the beatifical Vision and Fruition of him in the most glorious Fellowship with Christ the head of our recovery and all the holy Angels and blessed Saints in Heaven O famous Description And yet the one half is not told us now shall I be so unkind as once to wish him back again with me Should I not rather long to be with him and in the mean time think well of the Rod which is a blessed means to drive me forward in Heavens way Should I not with humble Submission entertain this and all other afflictive Providences which may exceedingly befriend me in my Preparation for that blessed Place and State 8thly Death and the Grave are quite vanquished and overcome by Jesus Christ and surely this is a very staying quieting Consideration I am ready to think sadly of it that his precious Soul and Body that loving couple should be separated their Union dissolved that he in whom I have so delighted whose company hath so oft refreshed me that he should be laid in the dust and have worms for his Companions while I may see his Face no more in the land of the living that he should consume and rot in the Grave this goeth hardly down But is there not somewhat of childish pity here I am to consider that its only the Flesh that is the looser here and that but for a time which loss shall be made up with unspeakable advantage at the great Day of the Lord which draws on Death to his Soul was his present inservicable Gain as before And why should I be so immoderately concerned for what the body suffers Alass What was it but a lump of Corruption Indeed while that gracious Soul of his did animate it it was very lovely of much value But now the Jewel is gone what is the Cabinet worth Good reason why I should take delight in that House though but of Clay while the heavenly Inhabitant was there But now it s gone and House is fallen in why should I so value it And farther what was it to him what an Enemy How much care and labour grief and sorrow it hath cost him A log a prison to his Soul I may be sure he doth not grieve or grudge that God hath now by Death thus disburdened unfettered and released him But farther I am to consider that Jesus Christ the Lord of Life hath vanquished and overcome Death if Death had swallowed him up had made an end of him this had been sad indeed but God be thanked it is otherwise He had a firm Belief of this great Truth and the Comfort of it too for in his late Sickness when he called me to Pray by him he bid me bless God for a Mediator through whom he could say O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory The Lord Jesus Christ is risen from the dead a main part of the glad tidings which the Gospel brings which is good assurance of the blessed Resurrection of all those that belong to him let me think oft of those sweet Words of his because I live ye shall live also To be sure the Lord Jesus Christ the head of his Church will not have a dead Body no nor one dead Member while it is in his Power to give it Life as sure as he is risen from the Dead and lives for ever more which is as sure as that God is True who hath declared it in his Word so sure it is that whosoever believing his shall be raised by him at the last day and live for ever with him Now think I have many a time chearfully bid him Good-night when he hath been going to take his Natural rest and why Because I hoped to see him again in the Morning and that more refreshed And why should I grieve immoderately now His grave is but a bed wherein to rest his weary Bones for a while and I may not only hope but have a confident well grounded Assurance that the Morning of the Resurrection will come when the earth shall disclose him and the dust cover him no more this shall not be an everlasting Night an endless Sleep No his Body shall be raised and that a glorious spiritual Body That blessed Day will e're long dawn and how sweet will be the Salutation between that lovely couple his glorified Soul and Body perfectly delighting in each other without jarring in the least for ever more And how happy a meeting it will be for me when I shall so meet with him as never to be parted from him more O! I shall have enough of his company in Heaven and it will be better to me there then it was here if it hath been so comfortable to spend Sabbath's and Solemn-day's of Humiliation and Thanksgiving with him here What will it then be to spend an everlasting Sabbath with him in Heaven in singing forth the high Praises of God and of the Lamb Sure I should not be so dejected with the sad thoughts of parting here as comforted with the joyful hopes of that blessed meeting Well the time is coming on a pace the Lord Jesus Christ is risen from the dead the first Fruits of them that sleep and by and by the Trumphet sounds and that quickning Voice which will make dead and dry Bones live Arise ye dead will be heard all the World over Then shall all the Faithful arise out of their Graves with Bodies made like unto Christ's Glorious Body Now what say I to these things Believe I this I have cause to be extream jealous of this naughty Heart of mine which I have so often found tardy and I may be sure of this that my own immoderate fear of Death and dejectedness at the death of Friends if it prove not the absence of Faith yet sadly bewrayeth the weakness of
O happy Place and happy Persons whose continual Work is perfect love and joy and praise I am your loving obedient S. I. B. LETTER XXII To T. W. My dear F. YOUR lines were very welcome to me both as they express your Affection to me your readiness to Simpathize with me your hearty Prayers to God for me and likewise as they give some revival to our former intercourse which my thoughts were working upon a day or two since with much desire I can heartily bless God for the comfortable Society I have formerly had with you O can we not both of us remember many an Hour with Comfort when the Lord hath been pleased to make a Third with us Yea and I hope when a few Minutes of Time more are past we shall be removed out of this Vale of Tears and meet upon the Mountains of Spices O a happy meeting that will be will it not think you O should we not be looking and longing and with Patience waiting for that blessed Day And should we not be quickning and encouraging one another in the way It is my hearty desire now we cannot so frequently pray and discourse together as we have formerly done I am perswaded to the great Satisfaction of us both it is my desire I say that we may maintain a mutual Correspondence by writing And methinks I have much to tell my Friend of now but that streightness of Time and some bodily Indispositions will not suffer me the dispensations of the Lord towards me are very Gracious O how manifold are his Mercies Indeed goodness and mercy hath followed me all my Days and methinks there is so much of Love mixed with the severest of his Dispensations towards me that I cannot but love him the more and praise him the more for them O they are not the wounds of an enemy nor the chastizements of a cruel one God is all love yet even when he takes as well as when he gives O to see Love in every thing is not that sweet O what is this Heart of mine made of that it is no more affected O help me love the Lord for me praise the Lord for me come let us exalt his Name together the Lord hath dealt very favourable as to my F. his Distemper not so violent as it might have been though his Weakness hath been very great how the Lord may dispose of him I cannot tell he continues very Weak though I hope the Distemper is much abated but this I know God will do all things well pray for us still yea and praise the Lord on our behalf I am affectionaly Your's I. B. LETTER XXIII To S. M. Dear S. I Hope you will not take it ill that you have not heard from me before now I am sure you are much in my thoughts and I should be glad to exchange a Letter with you now and then I had many affectionate concerned Thoughts about you when I heard of your late illness and it was not a little Comfort to me when I heard of your recovery much more shall the health and prosperity of your Soul rejoyce my Heart and that it may be daily promoted by all the Methods of God's Providence as well as by his Ordinances is and shall be my daily Prayer to that God who I hope hath begun a good Work there Dear S. the near Relation I am in to you lays me under a strong Obligation to do the utmost I am able to promote the welfare of your outward Man but methinks I feel my Affections especially working towards your Soul Well how is it Is your Soul in health Doth your Soul prosper By nature our Souls are like Hospitals for spiritual Diseases O there is no sound Part left in them but the Lord out of his Divine pity and bounty hath provided a wife able and tender hearted Physician for us the Lord Jesus Christ who hath prepared a rich Medicine every way suitable to our Diseases of his own most precious Blood and he is daily begging for Patients and his great Complaint is that Men will not come to him who would assuredly and freely heal them but rather choose Death now O that you and I may see more of our need of him our Souls are really O that they were more sensibly Sick our Diseases are in their own Nature mortal ones and all others besides him are Physicians of no value but if he undertake our Cure the danger is over no fear of miscarrying under his Hands O that now we may be so thoroughly convinced of our need of him and of his ability skill and good will that we may now look after him indeed and no more neglect him as we have done but may sincerely heartily chearfully and thankfully accept him and fiducially put our lives our souls our all into his Hands confiding in him and in him alone and obedientially following his Prescriptions then our Souls should live and not die but I must take leave let me hear how it is with you You have a daily remembrance in my poor Prayers who am affectionately Yours I. B. LETTER XXIV To S. M. Dear S. I Receiv'd your's which I took very kindly I had thoughts of writing to you before I received it for I shall be glad of intercourse this way and desire it may be so managed as that it may prove to the great Advantage of us both we should ever act like Persons for another World and should endeavour to manage every thing so as may help our selves and others forward in our way to Heaven O that we may I have two things to advise you to and let my Councel be acceptable The First is highly esteem and accordingly improve your precious Time surely if we did but consider how much great and necessary Work lies upon our hands we could not so lightly esteem and squander away that short and precious Time allotted to us for the doing of it in we have much to do for God to promote his Honour and Glory much to do for our Selves for our Souls we have our Salvation to work out an Interest in Christ to secure and clear weak Graces to strengthen strong Corruptions to subdue many and strong Temptations to resist and overcome many hard and difficult Duties to discharge and we must expect that the task of Duties though in another Sense we should not look upon Duty as a task will be encreasing as we grow up and much we have to do for others to promote their good We have our Generation to serve in the places God sets us in and all this must be done in time and is not that Time to be accounted Precious And farther it may be much shorter then we think of what is Man's life taken at its full length It is but as a Span days and years pass away like the Wind are spent as a Tale that is told but let not you and I promise our selves long Life but be thinking of a shorter cut then ordinary
THE REMAINS OF Mr. Joseph Barrett Son of the Reverend Mr. JOHN BARRETT Minister of the Gospel AT NOTTINGHAM BEING The Second PART taken out of an Exact DIARY written by his own Hand LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst and are to be Sold by him at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside and John Richards at Nottingham 1700. TO THE READER IF you have conversed with the Former Volumn of this eminently holy Man's Papers we reckon we need do no more to envite you to a serious delightful Perusal of this Second then to assure You that they are more of Mr. Joseph Barrett's Papers and indeed we scarce need to certify that neither themselves do testify it they have the same Rich Vein of more then ordinary Judiciousness Savouringness and Spirituality running through and sparkling in them as did in the Former the same marks of eminent Impresses and large Supplies of God's Spirit and the same signs of a Man very much in Communion with God and inflamed with Love to and Zeal for God of one much in Heaven during the little time he was here on Earth his True and somewhat peculiar Character Which makes it not strange at all that he was so soon removed to Heaven the place his Heart was so much in and he drove such a great Trade with and that he was so soon removed from Earth a place so grievous to him by reason of its-aboundings Iniquity and withheld and which vexed his Righteous Soul from day to day in seeing and hearing its ungodly Deeds nothing revived him more than the Success of his Projects for Christ and Souls And in imitation of his Blessed Master whom we never find weeping for any of his own though peculiarly heavy Affliction and sore Sufferings but only for either the Sins or Calamities of others nothing grieved him more than to see the hardness of Men's Hearts their opposition to the Blessed Jesus and the sad prospect this gave of Judgment upon Them and the Nation If an ill Spirit broke out with any Prevalence and the Interest of Religion seemed to give ground if any Adventure of Prayer many of which he made and put others upon making and blessed be God with good Success but if at any time any such Adventure did not make the return he hoped for how near did it go to his Heart out of his Apprehension of God's Displeasure and fear of this precious Duty of Prayer come into Discredit This grived him much more than the failure of any the greatest Adventurers in the Business of his secular Calling Apprehesions of God's being provoked and displeased and fears of the Consequences of it sat heavy made deep Impressions upon the Spirit of this Josiah whose Heart through Grace was peculialy soft and tender the Zeal of God's house did eat him up Several things of his and upon many Accounts we have reason to conclude valuable ones are locked up from being publickly useful by being written in Characters But blessed be God that so ordered it that so much of the good Treasure of this Scribe instructed to the Kingdom of Heaven this well furnished Housholder is left unlocked and stands open for publick Vse The things this Second Volumn consists of we shall not stay you in giving you our Judgments particularly of them but leave you to make a Judgment of them your Selves when you have perused them Only it may not be amiss to give some brief Account of the nature and method of those Conferences that one of these Tracts hath relation to The Reader therefore is desired to take Notice That in the Congregation of which this Holy Man was a Member there is a meeting of several Christians once a Week from Five to Seven of the Clock at Night for mutual Edification which is spent only in Prayer repeating of Sermons and singing of Psams on those Nights when the Ministers are not present But usually once in a Month the Ministers are there and then some practical Question or Case of Conscience is propounded and discoursed of and every Man present hath liberty to propound his own Thoughts and speak his own Experience Prayer begin and together with a Psalm or Spiritual Hymn closes the Exercise The Minister opens the Question and in the Close sums up the substance of what hath been discoursed of These meetings this good Man was a great Lover and Promoter of yet such was his great Modesty that be seldom spoke himself but wrote his Thought and put them into a Friends hands with a charge of privacy as to the Author who read them towards the close of the Exercise Having thus acquainted you with what we think necessary in relation to these Papers we recommend them to your serious powerful Perusal you and them to the Blessing of the God of all Grace and our Selves to your Prayers who desire help through your Prayers and the supply of the Spirit he obtain help to be The furtherers of your Faith and helpers of your Joy in the Lord John Whitlock Jo. Whitlock Junior August 22. 1699. ADVERTISEMENT THE first Account of Mr. Joseph Barrett's Life printed contains Eight Chapters which is in several Hands single therefor these his Remains begins Chapter the Ninth BOOKS Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns the lower End of Cheapside near Mercers-Chappel Books written by the Reverend Mr. J. Howe OF Thoughtfulness for the Morrow With an Appendix concerning the immoderate Desire of foreknowing things to come Of Charity in reference to other Men's Sins A Sermon at the Funeral of Mr. Richard Adams M. A. Sometime Fellow of Brazen-Nose Colledge in Oxford The Redeemer's Tears wept over lost Souls In a Treatise on Luke 19.41 42. With an Appendix wherein somewhat is occasionally discoursed concerning the Sin against the Holy Ghost and how God is said to will the Salvation of them that perish A Sermon directing what we are to do after a strict Enquiry whether or no we truly love God A Funeral Sermon for Mrs. Esther Sampson the late Wife of Hen. Sampson Doctor of Physick who died Nov. 24. 1689. The Carnality of Religious Contention In two Sermons preach'd at the Merchants Lecture in Broadstreet A Sermon for Reformation of Manners A Sermon preach'd on the Day of Thanksgiving Decemb. 2. 1697. To which is perfix'd Dr. Bates's Congratulatory Speech to the KING A Sermon on the much lamented Death of the Reverend William Bates D. D. The Redeemers Dominion over the Invisible World being a Discourse on the Funeral of Mr. Houghton A Sermon at Mr. Mathew Meads Funeral CHAP. IX QUESTION I. How may a man know that he is led or acted by the Spirit of God BEfore I answer directly I beg leave to lay down a few things which I think may tend a little to clear the question and to prevent Mistakes about it As 1. That there must be a principial of Spiritual Life infused into the Soul in the Work of Regeneration before a Man can be said
to the Grave I question not but Death is triping up the Heels of some young Persons about you in D. as well as here let us take warning by them and learn to prize and improve our precious Time I could wish you knew what sad Reflections I have upon my self for the mispent of time that I should have lived so long to so little Purpose Now dear S. you have several of those years before your Face if the Lord lengthen out your Life which alass are got behind my back and cannot be recalled O lay hold on this advantage and cut off the occasion of such sad Reflections now in time My Second advice is That you would keep up a constant Course of religious Duties and labour in them for sweet and sensible Communion with God I have suffered much by my neglect of Duties and by trifling in them O the long and sad interruptions of my Communion with God! O the sad effects of this Methinks sloath idleness and formality hath even cloathed my poor Soul with raggs Take heed S. take heed It can never be well with us when we are strange with God and live at a distance from him To live without God in the World is an Hell upon Earth O keep your Heart close to God in a course of Holy Duties be oft in God's walks and be not contented unless you meet with him there but alass while I am writing this methinks Conscience is whispering thou dost not follow this advice thy self as thou shouldst I must confess this is a Truth and a sad one but I think it is good Advice and I would fain have it better with me then it hath been in these respects or then it may at present be with me and besides I would have you better much better then my self therefore take and follow it my daily Prayers are for you the Lord be your God and Guide and everlasting Portion I am affectionately Your's I. B. LETTER XXV To T. W. My dear Friend METHINKS its long since I saw you and I cannot be quiet till I have imparted some of my Thoughts to you I doubt not but you have been wrestling with God for us in reference to our late Exercise methinks I feel that you and other dear Friends have been praying for us the Lord return your kindness and your prayers into your bosom double and may these lines farther engage them and also put a note of praise into your lips O love the Lord O praise the Lord for his goodness We can do little help us help us add your instrument say his goodness endureth for ever surely he hath not contended with his great Power nor withdrawn his supporting Arm we have been afflicted but he hath been with us in six Troubles and in seven he hath not forsaken us surely all his Paths are Mercy and Truth are not all things our's if we be Christ's Shall not nay is not this already working for our good Faith should and Heaven will make us see and say that God hath done all things well even just as we would have them trust his God let your dependance be upon him we have tried him and have found him very Faithful yea very Gracious and Merciful Blessed be the God of Patience the God of Meekness the God of all Grace and the God of all Comforts for what of these he hath given in at this needful time help us to make his praise Glorious and continue instant in Prayer for us that we may reap some special Benefit and that our Fruit may remain My dear Father besides his wonderful inward Supports and Joys hath had a greater freedom from his bodily Distempers at this time then he hath had for some years past bless God for that too I cannot tell you all his Mercies have been manifold have we not been full of his Goodness O may our hearts our lips our lives be full of his Praise Now what shall we render What projects for Jesus Christ now I will tell you of one when I see you which I would have your Assistance in think on me as to that great Affair of mine you know of I do not see but that Providence still smiles upon it and am apt to think it may not be long before it be put to an issue I am oft full of discouraging Fears about it pray for me and if providence do not yet cross it help me to call our great Friend to the Marriage him that turned their Water into Wine O a good guest would he be A guest did I say nay let him be an inhabitant pray him entreat him beseech him tell him I do not Complement with him But I forgot my self the Lord fill your Soul full of his Goodness and bless you in all your Ways I am your real affectionate Friend I. B. LETTER XXVI To my M. Dear M. I Have been deeply concerned for you for some time of late upon the account of that excessive trouble and sadness of Spirit which hath so sorely born you down of late and as it is my Duty so it would be greatly delightful to me could I but do any thing to help you against that which as it cannot but be displeasing unto God so also very Afflictive to your self and to all that love and tender you I was last week casting in my Thoughts for some Cordial for you and I hope the good Providence of God hath directed me to that which I have here sent you enclosed the God of all comfort bless and make it Effectual it is that which I have sometimes found a wonderful Virtue in my self and therefore I can the better recommend it to you will you promise me to read it over and not only now when you first receive it but whenever you find a fainting fit of Sorrow coming upon you Will you promise me to read it seriously and believingly Why then I dare give you leave to be sad and disconsolate if you can O that I knew but what argument to use with you or with God for you for you are never out of my praying Thoughts I dare not be unfaithful to you I must tell you plainly there is more Sin in it then you are aware of and it is the cause of much Sin I know it by too sad experience my self when I have sometimes been in your Case though then I could not see it alass things were hidden from me Again your Sorrow makes the Devil Merry O it pleaseth him he knows he cannot hurt you hereafter it will be out of his Hands therefore he takes delight in your disquiet here and I tell you mark it for its that I have experienced every time you indulge your self in it will he get the stronger hank upon you which you will be less able to shake off Herein you are very ingenious to your self you know not what inward Peace it deprives you of it quenches the Spirit then it greatly injures you as to your outward