in the eyes of many great and small as ever was Moses in the eye of Corah and his company for discharging his conscience This spirit became very spreading then and so strong that God was faine to make Israels misery long till he had cut off all that were unworthy of that which Moses and Aaron laboured to bring them to so may this spirit make our sufferings long so long till God hath cut off al these proud jostling spirits which are altogether unworthy of those great mercies which our honest-hearted Parliament painefully labours to bring us to A third thing that makes our troubles have a long visage in my eye is this That the one thing necessary to publique welfare is not preferred and prosecuted as such a thing that is according to its dignity and our duty The maine thing I conceive to our publique wel-fare is to perfect our reformation of Religion to raise up and finish that building the foundation whereof our Fathers bravely laid in their owne bloud Israel suffer'd much and suffer'd long a consumption followed them till it had brought them almost to nothing because they grew slack about the maine and preferr'd their owne houses the seiling and finishing of them before Gods House At first when they came togegether to Jerusalem they were hot upon Gods House but being diverted by troubles they grew cold and involved their spirits in their owne affaires which cost them deare and brought them into a deepe consumption I am affraid this is our case Our Parliament at first comming together seem'd very hot about Church affaires though not so hot then as I could have wish't God had his Committee amongst many other of our owne I meane a Committee about scandalous Ministers and matters wherein God is most immediately concerned this Committee was of life and heat a time and the dread and Majesty of that great Court hereby great many troubles came in and this Committee laid downe and other things relateing to this stay'd off by meanes of which the Majesty of that honourable House is much weakened because God much neglected I am affraide this will bring us into a deepe consumption and make Englands sufferings long because wee make God suffer so long all the Kingdome over by blinde worship and blind Ministers who are now the activest Engines against us A fourth thing which makes our troubles looke with a long visage in my eye is this God hath suffered our troubles to grow beyond our Tiller as the Archers terme is our bow is made too strong for us to bend this makes long worke to bee ready If an unruly child creep up under the lenity of Parents to become an unruly boy one in bodily strength suiteable to his spirit before taken downe this speakes long suffering to such parents this is Englands case Our wicked children are growne up under the wing and lenity of the Parliament to virility to mans estate to externall strength suiteable to their internall temper this I am affraid speakes long suffering to thee O poore England Justice doth not looke as if shee would lay down her rod presently when shee is gathering more and more twigs A few malignants are become many many without Armes many in Armes our locusts goe forth by troopes Justice doth not use to make a rod of so many and so great twigs for a little worke strong twigs and rods are gather'd to last for long work A fift thing that makes Englands troubles looke with a long visage in my eye is this A heavy spirit seemes to be fallen upon us Make their eares heavy saith God their Eares that is their hearts I am affraid that plague is heavily fallen upon us Heavy jades are shap'd to much beating a little will not make them goe Men come up to their light like a beare to the stake how heavy hath our motion beene to blast the Common Prayer Booke by publique vote how heavily brought on to judge it an agreement how heavily brought on to clip the power of Bishops how heavily brought on to vote them quite downe although such as had voted and almost acted downe God and all good in the Land how much farther hath many Parliament men gone in matters of Gods worship then droven I keepe honour in my breast towards them who have done throughout truely honorably For the execution of thorough Justice are they not now by the sword droven and will they goe now My heart bleeds to consider this what a heavy spirit is upon us in the prosecution of that worke which God hath thrust us upon Our eyes are halfe open as heavy-headed mens eyes are to see our advantages and our handes in our bosom like heavy sluggards when wee should take and prosecute advantages which God wonderfully gives us A heavy spirit speakes heavy misery suffering much and suffering long a heavy spirit makes heavy misery necessary such a temper otherwise will never go so far in good as it should The last thing which makes our sufferings looke with a long visage in my eye is this suffering doth not soften our fire doth not melt but harden and make brawny the heart of the most The weekly newes of our bleeding is become as the weekly bill of the plague read over and throwne a side Many bodies kill'd how many soules more alive then were What heart goes in secret and bleeds in his brethrens wounds Many kill'd many more worse then kil'd maim'd spoil'd turn'd out of all and likely to starue to death goe weeping wailing and wringing their hands up and down the Country yea up and downe here and doe fully looke some of you in the face and yet I see no signe of all this in your faces Their tone is dolefull doe wee eccho to them The spoiled mourne to the saved doe we weepe with them that weep doe we beare their burden as our own Let every mans conscience speake and acquit him if it can Doth not this saddly speak more suffering because no man will suffer till Justice bring suffering to his own doore No man will be afflicted till it come to his owne turne no man will afflict himselfe all is put upon God he must doe it man by man many will not be afflicted in few this will be long worke I can sadly tell you of hearts more brawny then these hearts that would not have spoiling cease because it inricheth them no not killing cease because 't is their gainfull trade that see bloud and desolation dayly and yet have no bowells but feare this wil end too soon that cut out their worke to last this is not the spirit of a Souldier but the spirit of a Butcher that lives by killing as his Trades and pockets up the prize of bloud and misery with joy This a Souldier a Judas a Wolfe that growes fat upon the carkasses of the slaine Men that strive after places to kill bodies for gaine Ah Lord who hath kill'd such soules This is the spirit of a Souldier
at such a place for echo Some things are done so and so to suite and joynt to others The holy Land was divided by Lot immediate providence caryed it there Friendship made no revenue in Canaan Gods own hand cast every man his fortune so big and so good in such a place in the Mountaines or in the vallies with springs or without Divine dispensations are harmonious Heaven comes in no new way to us God gives as he did give Hee did give Canaan with his owne hand so hee gives Heaven Power wrought very immediate to plant our fathers in the holy Land Ioshuah did cast lots and so divided the Land power did worke very immediate to plant persons there so it doth to plant Persons above I goe before to provide a place Iosh 18.10 c. Our Ioshuah assignes our mansion situation building conveyance all done with Christs own hand I goe c. Though power worke without hand yet not without rule not a word spoke nor a worke done by Christ but with scope and look to some rule though sometimes that rule be a great way off as far as Heaven Truth fulfils Types dispensations under each covenant one eccho to another Canaan went by Lot so does Heaven the lot of Saints Dispensations of grace and glory suite Gory is suited to grace in dispensation as grace is suited to glory in fruition as really the same Heaven and Christ come both one way to a Christian by immedate providence grace and glory are wrought both with Gods own hand 'T is the finger of God that turnes the heart towards Heaven and that turnes the heart into Heaven Grace is an inspiration glory is so too there is no remoter agent of either then Gods own spirit A soule and such a soule so happy and so glorious was breathed altogether into Adams nostrils The breath of Gods own mouth makes alive stil and the breath of his owne mouth cast varnish and glory upon that being to maturation 'T is Christ al in al here 't is no otherwise above Christ al in al no lesse makes grace and no more is glory Grace is such an immediation according to such a location glory is such an immediatioÌ„ according to such a translocation Christ is next to and onely with the soule in both Vse If this point were rightly applied to the heart hope would not fall respecting great favours depending providence hath more wayes then one to bring great things to us it can worke with hands and without hands divine power can bring a Heaven to you on its owne shoulders cast a Heaven upon you as a Lot into your lap in a very immediate way beyond all provision or expectation God does most and best for man alone when hee has no toole or no toole considerable in his hand Wee have a Heaven depending but yet a hell betweene us and it and no man can see but one way to it if that way do not hit which we propose we are all undone this is almost every ones vote This point should relieve us in this desperate case respecting our great feares our great hops which are so opposed There are great mountaines before Zerubbabell great hindrances in the way of our great mercies so that we see no likelyhood in an ordinary way how or when our great Heaven desired should arriue with us Let the point in hand support the greatest favours come in the most immediate way of providence heavenly favors come to us as if they did drop out of Heaven The more heavenly and divine the mercies are which wee expect in the more divine and immediate way they 'l descend The stone shall be cut out without hands that shall smite the image of various mixtures and breake it to pieces new Ierusalem comes downe out of Heaven Power will worke in a very immediate way to bring in that new Heaven into the Christian World which now the Christian World is labouring for Yet once more I shake not the earth only Heb. 12.26 but also Heaven God himselfe will after a speciall manner set his own shoulders to shake that rotten heaven of mens inventions and those which set their shoulders to keepe it up and make battery with such Cannon as we are not aware of Not by might nor by power but by my spirit saith the Lord respecting the building of that house which typifyed this Not by might nor power i not by humane strength so much as by his owne power shall the old Heaven be destroyed and the new erected We expect our Heaven too low from men but 't will come from God when it comes As 't is a great favour so ' â—will come in state in the way of sublime favors very sublimely Magicians great heads and divellish wits shall be non-plust by God owne finger and art not by mens wisdome and art Egiptians shall be drownned on a sudden by a stratageme made in Heaven and managed from heaven Iericho shall fall by Faith by making no more or the power of men of Swords and Guns then of Rammes-hornes but magnifying the power of Christ and trusting in that Surely wee are yet too many and too strong to be delivered Christians I would yee were skilled in the way of GOD. GOD keeps his Old way in bestowing great things and yet yee wonder and murmur your folly is your owne affliction and many's more Things of great worth Christ will trust no Messenger with them but bring them himselfe Christ will trust none to bring your Heaven to you neither your Heaven here nor hereafter Men are false they would marre your heaven and bring you an old one in stead of a new one or an old one new patcht up Blessed be he that will bring a new heaven to us all new divine favours in their maturity though every man be trampled under foote and none seene in the worke but God though he trample all men in the dirt and he onely be left alive with the cause in his hand If men would allow God his way they would never be at a losse of Faith so fearefully as they are Yee open one doore and there comes in nothing but your shame yee set open another doore of your owne for Christ to come in at and there also comes in nothing but your folly and shame Ah Lord When will yee looke up and expect Christ from Heaven Do not great things come in a very immediate way to man Hath God tyed himselfe to do every great worke with such and such great meanes as your eye is fixed upon to cast out a Legion of bad spirits with a Legion of good Is not one enough to do it Christ brings an eternall weight of glory upon his owne Shoulders to your doores can he not bring a temporall weight of of glory which is far easier alone Thou art great and dost great things thou art God alone sayth the Psalmist We thinke God is not God nor able to do like a
upon affection p. 61. Apprehension is plac'd sentinell p. 62. The daÌ„ger of soule-powers mis-working p. 63 How apprehension comes to worke Divinely upon affection p. 67. 68. c. We are to call divine power as it works p. 73 Sinners will not doe so when power workes against them p. 76. How divine power hath wrought in the hearts and hands of Christians in England to be admired p. 80. 81. Divine things so mentioned as to make best impression upon the soule p 84. God speaks as one in Heaven to make us heare so p. 90. Soules not stirr'd by the word dead p. 91. The funerall of the dead rung p. 93. 94. Accents Aspirations of truth must have their place in the heart p. 97. The goodnesse of the heart is as the word makes full impression p. 98. Christ hath a glorious dominion in dying man p. 103. Things which give being give beauty and being ibid. Power workes in order to majesty p. 106. In order to its own absolute nature p. 108. Much communicable many have nothing this pitifull p. 109. Glorious power how miserable t will make a sinner when set against him p. 113. 114. What hinders power from working gloriously in the soule p. 117. Love admired that makes two Heavens p. 122. 123. Patience defined p. 126. What patience does presuppose p. 132. 133. How much patience is now needed in England p. 136 137. Principles of Patience suited to Englands state p. 139 140. c. What all Patience is p. 150. 151 c. Persons exhorted to examine their patience to know how eminent in it p. 158. Many grow very wicked for want of much Patience p. 161. The evills of impatience p. 162. 163. c. How all impatience is overcome p. 168. 169. Gospel-sufferings sometimes of great duration p. 171. What men should expect in the way to heaven p. 178. Three sorts of hearts which cannot suffer long p. 179. 180. c. Severall things shewing Englands sufferferings likely to be long p. 183. 184. c. Suffering though long should be mannaged with a spirit of joy p. 196. Such spoken to who can make no joy out of suffering in a good cause the causes of it laid open p. 203. 204. c. God would have a Christian never without joy p. 209. Encouragements to suffer long in the cause of Christ now in England p. 211. 212. c. A Christian covets all Christ p. 21 T is a lost man which observes not which way the strength of his soule workes p. 220. 221. A soule in extremity cannot last long p. 223. Joy makes an ascending frame of heart p. 225. Christmas joy jostl'd against by Christ p. 231. 232. c. The property of bad joy p. 234. 235. c. Thankesgiving defined p. 2â—8 What thankesgiving doth presuppose p. 245. Whose worke t is properly whose naturally p. 247. 248. Three things broadly speake Englands ingratitude p. 250. 251. c. The remedy of ingratitude p. 257. 258. c. Grace a Creation p. 263. Sinners utter undoing-time come p. 273. Principles demonstrative of soule ruined p. 274. And ruinous p. 277. The hinderances of creating and making power p. 281. Love singles out her objects p. 285. Man cannot argue Gods love to him from outward things p. 294. The properties of an electing love p. 295. 296 What persons Christ chuses to worke upon he makes through worke in p. 304. The properties of a man fitted for wrath p. 314. 415. Fitting grace for Heaven hath its meanes season p. 320. A double fitnesse for Heaven p. 325. The highest mercies are Communicable p. 329. How mans highest felicity is communicable p. 339. 340. Multitudes demonstrated to have no heart to goe to Heaven p. 347. 348. c. Jnterest in Heaven should comfort against all losses p. 351. The greatest favours come most immediate p. 356. Hope should not fall respecting great things when externall meanes fall p. 364. Heaven the inheritance of Saints p. 375. Demonstrations of profane holinesse p. 379. 380. c. The birth of Sanctity p. 386. 387. Heaven resembled by light p. 392. 393. God doth lively shadow out to man here what will be his condition hereafter p. 414. FINIS USEFULL INSTRVCTIONS FOR THESE Evill Times COLOSS. 1.11 Strengthened with all might according to his glorious power unto all patience and long suffering with joyfulnesse PRayer in this Verse is still continued and still suited to present and imminent distresse The state of these Christians was a suffering state and like to be more as our state now is and therfore Prayer is made for answerable reliefe for divine strengthening forbearing and suffering grace for shoulders suitable to every burden Strenthened with all might according to his glorious power unto all patience and long suffering with joyfulnesse The termes of this Text are very weighty I shall therefore deale with them one after another their difficulty lies Et in materia in voce both in matter and word yet one hand on which we leane will carry us thorough both to Gods glory and mans edification I begin with the first word Strengthened 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Kóbur animi innuit c. It points principally at the spirit of man which is the bearer up of all a man is what he is from the fortitude of his inward man according to this scope and sense the Apostle explains himselfe using the same word to the Ephesians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. And applying it to the inner man That he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man Doct. God exerciseth a relieving power in a Christian As he doth exercise a creating power whereby he doth make a Christian so he doth a strengthening and relieving power whereby he doth maintaine a Christian who are kept by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the power of God 1 Pet. 1.5 'T is the same word with this in my Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 strengthned with all might c. Divine power makes and then it upholds it makes Esse and then it makes porrò esse it brings forth and breed's up it travells in birth once and againe My little children of whom I travell in birth againe This travaling in birth againe Gal. 4.19 is strengthening and relieving power to maintaine and finish the first birth the same that is here spoken of in my Text. Strengthened c. Divine power as it works towards a Christian hath its peculiar properties Proprietates potentiae Divinae as it workes towards a Christian it works tenderly such a power working about the soule works and works againe it makes lambes and then it makes armes to carry lambes to preserve them to be sheepe for the fold of Christ He shall gather the Lambes with his Armes and carry them in his Bosome and gently leading those that are with young Isa 40.11 As there is a carring and a leading power exercised about
how they grieved him by their murmuring you would think much if he should be so long a telling England of her present murmuring So afterwards he took eight yeares and then eighteen yeares and then twenty yeares to tell Israel what they did under their Judges and then seventy yeares to tell Israel what they did under their Kings not any publique body that I know of in the Scripture but when God hath come to administer Justice to it he hath taken some yeares to doe it Great houses that have many roomes in them and these very foule cannot be swept presently Secondly as God takes time to administer Justice to publick bodies so he takes time to administer mercy to publick bodies The Tabernacle was long a raising the first Temple which was to exceed that longer the second Temple which was to exceed that much longer and the third which is to exceed all longest of all The tent or Tabernacle which was but small I judge was a yeare a making the first Temple seaven yeares the second Temple forty and six yeares if this had any typicall signification as I believe it had it might well point at this that a publick house for Christ under the Gospell would be long a raising I meane a worship suiteable to Gods Will borne up by publick authority According to what way God will dispence himselfe 't is Justice and duty to waite for him I finde not one hint in Scripture of suddaine raising this last house You shew your selves ignorant men you erre not knowing the Scriptures which are impatient because travailing England is not delivered in an houre in a yeare We have scarce travailed so long yet as the Tabernacle was a building sure I am not so long as the first Temple was a building there is no ground therefore of impatience who have more noble things in hand The son rises more and more and so must up to the perfect day this is the order that Christ will proceed in to bring full mercy into the World will you be impatient that the sun rises no faster that he is not at the meridian as soon as the day dawnes A second principle is this God doth fit for favours and then gives them he doth hew stones for this last Temple We are a generation low in spirit and yet impatient that we have not high things Doe you give children and fools what they desire doe you not instruct and discipline and then give yea and then too what in your wisdom you know good We are utterly below high things affraid of full mercies is it not the feare of some that the Puritan faction as they call them will be too strong the discipline of the Gospell too strict our spirits are base to God and yet we wonder that noble things are not given unto us Doe not men play with their light prefer policy to truth Judge that Christ may weare a party coloured coat mans wisdom mixt with Gods our own inventions and truth weaved together Tell me the best of you all which are so impatient for reformation which amongst you all doth deale so fairely with your light and so simply with your conscience as to render your selves capable of so great a good as you seeme to wrangle for Let things goe how they will you can still shuffle along is not a shuffling condition fit for a shuffling spirit God walkes to you as you walke to him and yet you are impatient he cuts you out a condition with his Sword suitable to your hearts he sees what consciences you have that you stick at nothing why should he remove what you can swallow why should you thinke much to live upon Huskes if you can eate Huskes when I looke upon that cold neutrall indifferent spirit that is in English Christians generally I wonder to heare any complaine that their best mercies are so long a comming You impatiently talke of the Parliament of the Army of this and that one is this and another is that and therefore your misery lives your mercies linger and you die I tell you 't is Englands neutrality that hath brought her to this state that keeps her in this state that will spend her and end her with bleeding if any thing doe A third principle is this inferiour agents are all over-ruled Judas and his bloudy crew move by a supreame councell they could not else have done to Christ what they did and so Christ told them Providence orders all agent and actions to her own end not to such an end proposed by such a man if love be in the breast of the first agent 't is no matter how all other agents act you are to conclude they act well still though you cannot see it no heart could be impatient or wrangle if this principle were but well swallowed Actions and agents may move very strangely in our view and yet very orderly to the greatest good as their supernaturall end I would aske any impatient soule but this what is in the breast of God respecting our cause love or not love if you Judge love to be in God to our cause believe that all agents and actions are ordered by it and will bring forth in Gods time a blessed end A fourth principle is this The imployment of War is a new thing to England a councell of War and a councell of State are two things experience makes Expertnesse 't is weakenesse to fall out which young beginners because not expert every one doth not know how to stick a Hog to the heart at one thrust such must have the liberty to thrust againe and 't is well if they kill him at last Would you have men old Souldiers which never saw the field before let any Chronicle produce braver courage and carriage by young beginners then ours have hitherto shewen both at Kenton and Branford Passion makes uâ— looke over what God doth by us and for us A fift principle is this Gods providence makes up mans improvidence God we see is by so much the more watchfull that we are unskilfull have we cause then to be impatient did not Gods providence make up our improvidence at Branford could so many else have been kept from comming to the gates of your City by so few and so unarmed our men wanted powder and shot and our God shot off for them and for us or else certainly we had had their Cannon thundering about our Ears for a Sabbath peale Many advantages we have given them but they are curst to the adversary they doe not thrive with them they labour in the very fire and blast themselves upon the top of their best advantages When God is al-sufficient in such a redundant sence as this to supply over sight by his watchfull Eye what soule dares to murmure A sixt principle is this Impatience against called instruments to any worke is impatience against GOD and hee will take it so who is Moses and who is Aron that you murmure against them who
God further then man any man can doe made to pierce the sides and to pierce the heart the Arrowes of the Allmighty are within mee saith Job their poyson drinkes up my spirit the terrors of God doe set themselves in array against mee Job 6. A body so shot a soule so shot to come off so bravely as Iob doth there Let him not spare for I have not concealed the words of the holy one Let man wound God wound God and man doe what they will to soule and body and not spare yet God that wounds will I obey to the death this is all patience that is patience that holds its own in all conditions All Parience 't is patience breathing her selfe forth in the Teeth of a dog and setters on Shimei may barke Standers by hisse to make barking againe and yet all patience divinely turnes off all beholding GOD in a dead Dog a righteous God in an unrighteous man All patience 't is a heart able to suppresse all insurrection from the naked consideration of God and sinne a heart that can quiet it selfe from the very rod gather patience from the very twigs that whip and smart All patience 't is a heart which from the shaper and shaping of affliction can shape it selfe shoulders to beare it well 't is a heart so principled as able to fetch out of every eater meate out of a tearing Lyon Honey out of every bitter sweete something in or about every evill to keepe it selfe good and make it selfe better All patience 't is a spirit growne to an angelicall height able to carry himselfe sweetly to a dog to a Divell to the worst creature offending with no worse passion then this The Lord rebuke thee All Patience notes a totality in reference to time totum temporis All Patience is patience in graine such as will hold its colour yea it 's very glosse as long as the cloth last it notes such a patience as dies not till the man die such a patience as keeps the soule in all stormes and till all stormes be over that keeps the soule quiet till the very weather be quiet or till the soule hath quietly expired it selfe into the bosom of eternall rest above all disquiet All patience 't is holding fast till Christ come 't is a wayting all our dayes for better dayes in another World till our change come for liveing againe where barely to live is Heaven where being and wel-being are not distinguished All patience 't is a house upon a Rock a house so built a spirit so principled so sinewed so nerved and joynted that nothing can pull down but death it notes a soule so much out of it selfe and so much in Christ in his armes and under his dominion that it lies under a kind of impossibilitie to be stirred as mount Zion that not onely is not but cannot be moved the house may moulder and that may downe otherwise all patience is such an inmate such an inward soule-lasting thing that it will never out all patience was never knowne to leave any house till it fell down all patience and the last breath goe away together Father into thy hands J commit my spirit these are the last words of all patience Luke 23.46 The result of all is this All Patience 't is all advantages taken away al provocations incompassing and yet the soule abiding holy in behaviour and cariage in thought word and deede unto death 't is God against man the devill against man wife friends fire winds all creatures below man armed and set against man and yet man patient 't is man buffeted scratch't with thornes nayled spear'd spit on hell inflicted on Earth and yet holy and without sin and so continuing till hell be turned into Heaven the soule out of the body both into eternall rest All patience the Apostle expresseth in few words 't is patience having made her full fortifications her perfect worke as he calls it 't is every faculty in combination to beare what is or can be 't is the Militia setled in the soule by act by consent of the three states understanding will and affection 't is all soule-powers united to beare and endure all that can befall man All patience 't is a strong spirit as the expression is used of John Baptist and of Christ and of none else a spirit fortified with cleerenesse of light strength of faith fulnesse of resolution and made Musket proofe Cannon proofe impregnable against which the gates of hell cannot prevaile All Patience t is patience all in armour 't is a stubborne heart subdued and risen againe to divine resolution and now as divine hardy as before foole hardy 't is a spirit that will know no evill after the flesh no evil as 't is fleshly miserable but as 't is soule sinfull All patience 't is enduring hardship as a Souldier as a good Souldier as a good Souldier of Christ as the Apostle saith not opely suffering for truth but sleighting suffering as you know Souldiers doe they make nothing of hunger nor cold of blowes of wounds no nothing of death 't is a notable expression this of all patience to wit enduring of hardship as a good Souldier All patience 't is a spirit that can indure all hardship with ease perils at Sea perils at Land perils amongst false brethren perils amongst professed enemies any misery any death burning tearing cutting sawing a sunder and scorne base deliverance this is al patience patience al over patience patience throughout patience so liveing so dying Vse I have authority by this point to command you al to weigh your patience and to tell me to a graine how much you have Christians how much patience have you have you little or have you much have you al I speake to you al. The Heavens you see are growing al black over you the Earth al bloudy under you al miseries are marching towards you Famine Plague Sword white Horse black Horse pale Horse neither true white nor black al sorts of Men amongst us on Horse-back and going about deadly worke have you al patience to entertaine them al who ever come and what misery soever they bring Doe yee not expect a very miserable time yes And I expect a very sinnefull time there is so little patience A little suffering I see wil make you sinne much ah Lord what wil great suffering then doe seven yeeres bleeding ten yeeres bleeding twenty yeeres bleeding as Germany hath had you murmure now a little is gone surely you wil blaspheme when al is gon curse King Parliament and GOD too Lord what shal we doe wee shal have a Kingdome advanced to Heaven thrown downe to Hell a Kingdome full of devils full of evil spirits quickly if these Evil Times continue Men can beare nothing and God now calles to bearing much men cannot tell how to abate a little of wanted contents and God is going to strip of al men cannot exercise patience a little and God is calling for
cannot suffer long A naturall heart an engaged heart a carelesse heart Can nothing endure much much long Can man beare much which hath no shoulders Can a profane heart an hypocriticall heart or what else carnall heart you can name beare much they know not for what suffer long and tast not inwardly for what A Iudas will kisse Christ and depart and hang himselfe rather then be hang'd for Christ Gold endures fire long as long as you will cast a Ioseph an upright man into prison and he will lie there long as long as the devill will till the Iron enter into his soule Truth will live and die with truth I will not wager a straw upon any man for his parts let them be what they will in point of long suffering what is the man at heart that will he be for continuance in hardship for truth Naturall courage may doe much in a desperate way but deliberate tryall long suffering tyres this quite Nature can goe no further then shee can The old man cannot travell long paines and toile will make him petition for a Quietus est for an accommodation for any peace so he may sit downe quiet and sleep in a whole skin An engaged heart cannot suffer long A Sampson will give up at last and betray his owne life that is engaged in heart to please a wife a friend his own unmortifyed heart any one before GOD. A heart that will bee drawne was never will never be a long sufferer this is the worst temper of all for long worke this man has his disadvantage within Satan will often visit him to spare himselfe and this heart will finde so much discretion at last as to hearken to him and chuse sinne rather then suffering then suffering long I never knew a man that could be made but Satan could doe it first or last Either the glory of this World or the terrour of this World the casting down from a pinacle will fetch about that man in whose heart Satan when hee comes finds something some selfe-engagement The heart so far as engaged is selfish so far as man is selfish so far wil he admit of parley with the evil one the divell was never admitted to parley with man but he carried it his Parliament will sway every selfish man to looke to his skin and his life above his soule A carelesse spirit will never suffer long 'T is some mans spirit to make little of much at a distance such men usually sinke under a little when come upon them Confident men never prove long suffering men justice makes such know that they are but bubles a little stir breakes them a little heate dissolves them They are never in that good Kings strait We know not what to doe so long as troubles keep at any distance if it be but at skin distance till troubles come to touch the skin and touch to the quick and then they know not what to doe indeed 'T is worse then long suffering to some men to be told of it or to thinke of it they drinke downe all and feast dead their feares and I feare their soules Doe yee not see this Is not London wanton and voluptuous still What table can yee come at that speakes this London is like to suffer long Will feasting fit for hungring and starving will the killing of your soules fit you for the killing of your bodies Ah Lord will wicked wantons beastly belly-gods drunken careles Nabals prove long sufferers for truth will persons that cannot now live without excesse without too much and too fine doe well when they shall want necessaries and want them long longer then many others for much more abuse Surely these wretches will be doubly miserable when misery comes they will wish themselves any where to be delivered from the fruit of their wayes All the Armour of God should be look'd after with all diligence to make fit for long suffering and carelesse soules looke after none and yet they dreame they shall suffer as long and as well as the best but they doe but dreame They will lose their soules in a dreame their carelesnesse will make their long suffering as long as eternity I have spoken to take off security I will also speake something to take off scandall so passe this point Sufferings for truth fall out sometimes to be many and long this is the point and this is likely to be our condition Englands troubles looke as if they would be long they have a long visage in my eye two or three things make mee thinke our suffering wil be long The first is this a spirit of confusion is power'd out upon us 't is very generall and very strong 'T was so when the Jewes came first out of Babylon when they came to Herusalem to set about the building of Gods house then fell in a spirit of strong confusion amongst them some were for the old house some for the new some Cried to thinke of the externall glory of the old house others joy'd to see the beginnings of a more spirituall house but this is very observable the worst note was the lowdest a man could not discerne the noise of the shout of joy for the beginnings of the new house the noise of the weeping and crying of the people for the old was so great out of this spirit of confusion sprung up Vipers and Serpents such as tooke this advantage and hindered that great worke of the Lord many yeares and made their suffering long as you may see exactly in that story This is our case at this day there are many joy to see some beginnings of a more pure worship some hopes of raiseing and finishing this raiseth their hearts but there be many more which cry and take on for the old house for the pomp and glory of Bishops garments pipes carnall ordinances which please carnall sences and the cry of these is so loud that the joy of Gods people cannot be heard 't is now as quite buried Out of this confusion hath sprung up Sanballats and Tobias strong adversaries so strong and so many that they are likely to hinder Gods building much and make our suffering long A second thing that gives our troubles a long visage in my eye is this A jostling spirit of pride and frowardnesse against authority against those which God hath wonderfully raised to deliver us as wonderfully as ever he raised Moses to deliver Israel out of Egypt Yee take too much upon you said Corah and his company seeing all the Congregation is holy i holy enough already This is the very spirit and language of many great ones and small ones at this very day respecting the Parliament They take too much upon them things were well enough as under the government of Bishops and as in Queene Elizabeths time King Iame's time Reformation in Church and state according as our present condition and the increase of light calles for because this attempted renders the Parliament as odious
have such a phrase nothing but God is in all his thoughts he is lost in love and can finde no way out but by breaking out to Heaven O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God c. Thankfulnesse doth presuppose admiration a minde over-matcht with matter The soule is big with admiration as it can goe ere it kindly and nuturally brings forth thanksgiving A little makes a thankfull man admire much the least of Gods mercies O how great t is to a thankfull soule A thankfull soule sees nothing but wonders bread a wonder a crum of bread in his mouth a wonder clothes a wonder any rag on his back a wonder any whole peece in his flesh in his spirit in his estate in his name a wonder O how big are all a thankfull mans mercies and how little he how tall and proper every mercie and what a dwarfe he How good is every piece but the midle piece what a worme is man and yet how used by God above a man set little lower then Angels What a nothing what a worse then nothing is man and yet what an all is God to him these two wonders make a third to wit a dead heart alive and leape as high as Heaven Giving thankes to the Father who hath made us meete c. You see thankfulnesse hath here a great many wonders in her eye and this stirs her who hath made and made us and made us what why partakers of an inheritance what inheritance why an inheritance of Saints where doth 〈◊〉 lie why wonderfull strangely as high as Heaven in light admiration you see is the naturall mother of thanksgiving giving thanks to the Father who hath done all these and these favours for us Finally for I will name no more things about the opening of this doctrin though it were worthy long dwelling upon thanksgiving 't is the proper worke of a Christian and the naturall worke of an Angel A Christian is organized above all men sweetly to tell God his own he can dive deeper ascend higher run faster and further after God then all the lower World beside 'T is proper onely to a Christian to see love to taste love which are the strings onely which thanksgiving makes musick upon shee can play nothing but love lessons No man is divine but a Christian all others are but sensuall and to be ranked with bruites in point of thanksgiving for they give as good praise to God for any thing they have as any carnall man and better Bruites cannot speake but their bodies really answer their end which is reall thanksgiving for what they have and are 'T is a reall returne of all for all A carnall man can speake God I thanke thee c. But neither tongue nor hand neither soule nor body answer their end and so man makes himself an Hypocrite which a beast cannot do The Waves clap their hands saith the Psalmist many carnall men do not so much in point of thanksgiving the best of them can do no more All inanimata and meere animata they are only Creatures ad extra respecting thanksgiving they can onely clap their hands and clap their wings and all carnall men can do no more their Creatures onely ad extra respecting divine workes what they can do at these is onely with their hands and with their tongues clap their hands clap their breasts and lift up their eyes which some Bruites will be taught to doe in time As thanksgiving is the proper worke of a Christian so 't is the naturall worke of an Angel their breathing is divine praysing they are spirits of honour waiting upon the King of glory their place and their shape is for transcendent melody the advancing of infinite love is all their worke they speake nothing else doe nothing else nor can doe as the workes you doe naturally you doe necessarily you breath and you can doe no otherwise They are just under the line love shines mighty hot upon them with full face with perpendicular rayes that they are in a continuall rapture which necessitates heart lifting and leaping and nothing else and makes Hallelujah's all their language They are taken up with returning what they heare see feele taste and live in and live upon The result of all is this thanksgiving is a divine returning of divine love a rendring to God as wee have received as that expression concerning Hezekiah is 't is said hee rendred not or as it is in the Originall repayed not according to what he received which is a full and a lively definition of thanksgiving Vse Le ts all mourne and take on we are all behind hand with God The Christian world is become bankrupt quite broke makes no returne to God of his love he is issuing out processe to sieze upon body goods life and will be put off no longer bloudy Bayliffs are abroad for bad debters all the Christian world over Christians are broke and make no returne God is breaking of all He cannot have what he would have what he should have hee will take what hee can get for mony he will take goods limbs armes legs hee will have his owne out of your skin out of your bloud out of your bodies and soules he is setting the Christian World as light and as low as they have set his love Ah Lord what a time do we live in Long suffering is at an end mercy will be righted by Justice Justice will have all behinde 't will be paid to the utmost farthing 't will set abroach your bloud but 't will have all behind England looke to thy self how much hast thou received what hast thou return'd there is but one thing will undoe thee O England to wit ingratitude not returning as thou hast received There be three or foure things which broadly speake Englands ingratitude Great favours overlookt So great things scarce in any age as in ours hath God wrought yet what impression is there to be found in any mans heart wroks are great and yet make but little impression as fast as wrought dead 't is deadly ominous Tell mee are your hearts in a flame of love doth Heaven ring with your praises have not doe not the dealings of God challenge this of every one The dealings of God with England carry a sweete Face of love and their inside seemes very killing and judiciary they leave all hearts so flat and so low at such a desperate losse still as if nothing were done the greatest Victories the greatest deliverances keepe up the heart but a day but an houre Our favours are great but worke not answerably There is no one thing more sad in my observation they are great onely to looke upon not great in their efficacy and power upon the soule which may make you all look about you The buddings of great desolation appeare The Lord pity thee England The Lord pity thee England Wee grow cold under the rayes of fervent love dead and nothing will
influence upon the spirit The ball and flesh of the eye is made all the worke now is about the pupilla the nerves and Chrystall faculties within to make it see well and farre off as farre as Heaven Finally Tota grace is an universall Creation In the first Creation all was good so in the second all is good all thinges become new In the first all was wonderfull good good good very good so all things in the new Creation are wonderfull good behold all things are become new Tob tob Tob Meod a new heart a new tongue a new joy new hand new foote all new A new Creature not a new limbe onely all new all good wonderfull good behold All things are become new The first Creation made the great World all of it fit for Gods delight the second makes the little World so all fit for Gods delight it makes one Christian all Christians all over fit to to be partakers of an inheritance the highest the purest the wonderful'st In light who hath made us meete to bee partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light Vse I can stand upon this point and see double misery at many mens doors plain There is marring without what making is there within pulling downe without what setting up within killing without what making alive within destruction without what salvation within God is making bodies suitable to soules temporall states suitable to spirituall to make that within speake it selfe in this without Ah Lord What totall ruine What double what damnable desolation shall wee see Name State Body all made like unto the foule all mar'd and ruin'd Sinners your utter undoing time is come you will have nothing set up within you shall have all pull'd downe without and within you will not have your soules made better you shall have soule and body all made worse A blind lame ruin'd soule will content you will a blind lame ruind body content you too you shall have this too as much ruining marring desolating as you will none of us will see our inward estate till God write it out at large in our outward Englands plague every mans plague is in this God hath driven a high calling of soule making in this Land many a yeare but no man hath regarded it this hath thrust him upon body-marring and spoyling of al sinners you looke not to the cause of your misery Every man complaines hee is undone in this and that why O Plaintiffe is not thy soule undone did'st not thou play the Cavalier first and spoyld'st God conscience thy soule Does not all lie ruinate within have they not done so long Is it much to thee that a few sheepe cattell and goods lie ruin'd and wasted without and is it not thought of by thee yet what ruins are within Why thou shalt be more desolate most desolate marr'd quite till thou better looke after soule-making You kill the spirit kill your consciences kill every good thought and what looking after making alive Shall bad onely live and do well no God will kill that too you have kil'd all good God will kill all bad If you bee set upon ruining resolved upon ruinning God wil resolue so too My great errand from the point in hand is to soules ruined and ruinous The one will respect the wicked the other the godly and so we shall carry on what wee have to say I will give you some principles demonstrative of a state ruined and then of a state ruinous The first principle demonstrative of a state ruined is this Not observing estate The dead heed nothing Confusion is every where and no where much and nothing bad at any thing that is good worst of all at observing it selfe can abide no where study no where least at home Confusion hath eyes but none in her head they are in her heeles at the ends of the Earth Eyes but see not great parts but of no through use good parts but had still in their use Let things go as they will as they can this is confusions order le ts drive things as farre as they 'l goe have our will as long as we can all goe as 't will at last that 's a ruind soule Prosperous things observe themselves lick themselves moult themselves cast their feathers pick and set their feathers things that decay and die heed nothing neither themselves nor any else A ruin'd Soule lets all things runne to ruine lookes to no thing till all be lost Not observing estate 2 Not caring to doe it A ruin'd soule is carelesse A man broke and undone cares not to cast up acounts A ruin'd soule hath no eyes no heart to good nothing will stir the dead no eye pitied thee saith God no eye What not the mans owne no there are no bowels in a ruin'd soule to it selfe What shall I do to be saved There is not such a heart panting to be heard in a ruind soule The heart is a stone the man a dead dog a Nabal dead alive others must move for his good hee has no heart if David kil Nabals body and God kill Nabals soule so if God plague Pharaoh Moses must pray Pharaoh cannot if Elimas be in the gall of bitternesse Paul must pray Elimas has no art no heart to it A ruin'd state is man without a heart a heart without God no love to it selfe as eternall Troubled with truth conscience friends which call to selfe observation A ruin'd soule hath no good principle but many bad if these would mak 't up 't is not good 't will not be good 't will not be tempted with the meanes Christians are Hypocrites preaching prating folishnesse Christianity precisenesse meanes of grace kick't at if not suitable to humor Selfe-will rules every ruin'd soule and yet this is very froward froward wil filthy affection baffl'd light flesh leading the spirit doth so shall do so till both fall into the ditch into Hell Ah Lord Now all is ruin'd indeed Can it ever be repaired will Hell ever give up her dead to Heaven A ruin'd state hath two infallible Charters pride and malice these are the two black spots of a deadly plague in the heart these are the lungs by which the old man breathes out it selfe these the poyson of the Toade which speake him infallibly These are principles demonstrative of a ruined state I will now give you some principles demonstrative of a state ruinous All is well yet I have many slips as others have but I got up againe fall often but neck not broke yet this is al the reliefe that things are not past reliefe this is a ruinous soule Evidence is blur'd but the man can make a shift to read a little and that little is enough halter about 's neck but not yet turn'd of conscience charges home within but judgements yet do not second home without therefore all is wel this is a ruinous condition house almost quite downe and the Land-Lord thinkes 't is wel as long
his best blessings to wit in the bosome of the best persons Heaven is the inheritance of Saints Doct. Divine fruition is still made according to capacity Men many times give place and honor where there is no capacity nor fitnesse but Christ never doth Christ brings not hell to Heaven wickednesse inherits wrath grace onely inherits glory Heaven is hell to a depraved state As guilt shunes Justice so doth sinne holinesse A wicked man would not be where sinne is punished nor where grace is onely practized He is as unwilling to Heaven as to hell yet to one he must Christ casts hell upon many against their will but Heaven upon none but upon such who are both willing and capable Holinesse makes capacity of happinesse purity will bosome purity Christ puts no Toads in his bosom but Saints Inheritance of Saints c. Corruption cannot inherit incorruption Heterogeneals will not incorporate Choyce flowers will not grow by stinking weeds Capacity is absolutely necessary respecting the inheritance above If Sinners would into Heaven they cannot Light and darkenesse are inconsistent Fire and water oppose God and ungodly men cannot live neare Justice will fight it out with sinne to the death Without holinesse man cannot see God without this God cannot endure to see the man There be thousands and ten thousands in Heaven but not one sinner amongst them all the Land will not beare Snakes Toades Serpents no poysonous creatures only Saints Inheritance of Saints Justice makes exact distinction Sheep and Goates though many yet all parted Not a Goate upon Christs right hand Every attribute is exact at it's Office mercy brings her children from the foure winds of the Earth to Heaven and leaves not one short nor brings not one over Justice gathers her brats too from the foure Winds and leaves not one for any higher preferment then hell will afford The Lord knowes who are his that 's the Seale of Heaven A Seale is for exact distinction What a seale is unto us for exact distinction that is Christs knowledge to him hee doth as firmely as lastingly as exactly distinguish by vertue of this all persons in the World as wee doe by our seales and Markes distinguish amongst multitudes of things Though the devill have many thousands here below and Christ but a few and these tumbled up and downe amongst the wicked yet Christ knowes which is which and who are his And onely his shall have all hee hath Saints inherit God moves in relation Children only inherit bond servants have a little and turned off when their time is out If children then heires joynt heires with Christ This Hypothesis is a Thesis onely in a Saint Hee is a child of God out of question the nature of God is only manifest in a Saint A holy man plainly and without controversy speakes out himselfe to be a Sonne of God Jus legale carries the inheritance to him The wicked are of their father the Devill they may not lay claime to Heaven upon paine of hell If they touch the tree of Life they die when they promise Heaven wrath then smokes and hell never so neare as now Bondslaves doe not inherit nor bastards doe not inherit the case is the same of either respecting Heaven No Bastard Christians no Bastard Saints but Saints indeed inherit Vse Let every man looke to his sanctity It doth not merit but it doth entitle to the inheritance If children then heires A man may looke into his bosome and tell what he shall be for eternity Know your hearts and know them throughly you cannot doe well else 'T is death to mee to smell the breath of some of you your inwards are so rotten and yet I feare I feare you take notice of nothing My Quaere to you all is what have you to take to for eternity Heaven How doe you make that good Can you make demonstration of a holy state Yes I live justly I pray to God I heare his Word This is not infallible demonstration of sanctity Civill conscience calls and thrusts to all these as 't is so principled and under such a government A man may be just to men and not just to GOD. Heathens have beene as just as any of you all That yong man which came to Christ when the Law was read hee should not kill nor steale but love his Neighbour c. All this have J done from my youth .. He was exact for Justice and yet but in a sorry state for Heaven if one may belâ—eve his owne words Drawing neare to God in duties is a better demonstration of sanctity and yet this may be done with the lips when the heart is far from God They draw neare and sit before mee as my people saith God But their hearts goe after their covetousnesse A mans devotion may be hot for the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord And yet himselfe the Temple of the devill strict for new moones and solemne feasts and Gods soule loath all both men and their devotion There is blind devotion profane holinesse I will give you two or three principles demonstrative of it for I feare there are some deluded soules amongst you Out-side holynesse how splendid so ever it lookes is profane holinesse The heart denominates action The Pharisee was for Temple praying for lifting up of eyes and hands but no heart A meere image drawne out in such a posture with his eyes and hands inclining upwards and Christ made basenesse of this best piece God is worshipped in spirit If holinesse reach not this 't is grosse profanenesse Holinesse is spirit yielding to spirit bad to good 'T is a pure heart a heart captivated with Christ and spending it selfe upon him Holynesse 't is everlasting doores within doores of the soule that everlasting thing opened to a King of glory T is affection catched with truth one spirit bound by an other a bad spirit by a good and carried whither that list It is a flame and an Angell ascending in it A spirit a fire and ascending upward A man upon his knees and his heart upon his lips taking rise for Heaven from this advantage Profane holynesse is holinesse meerely formall piety suited to policy to things on this side Christ and truth My father did so my grand-father did so the most doe so therefore 't is best to doe so and 't is idle to doe otherwise Many mens sanctity is a meere piece of antiquity A humour to weare such an old fashion No devotion but Schisme that is not in this old habit No holinesse but faction that cannot be clasp't up within the covers of a Common-Prayer Booke Wednesdayes and Frydayes the onely dayes for Prayer The printed liturgy an onely forme for Prayer Ah Lord What is Bishops holinesse onely blessed holinesse Did not their bloudy zeale lie here What a curse is blind devotion The things that dame them are deare True holinesse is regulated by truth and not by persons nor time Sanctifie them with thy truth
stirring of every Finger of every Toe of every Haire of every one in Heaven a Heaven to behold There is no distinction of habit and act time and place meanes and end in point of felicity as here is as you know there is misery all along in the meanes with us and felicity onely in the end and that uncertaine too and so a little good habitually scarce any at all actually and the like In Heaven there is none of these miserable distinctions but Heaven in all in every quality Heaven in every action Heaven in every time Heaven in every place Heaven in every meane to such an end equally as in the end it selfe Heaven Simili dissimile In things which are but like there is some dislike Light is not universally permanent Our Sunne sets and rises rises and sets so 't is with most parts of the World very few parts have all day and no night all light and no darknesse 'T is not so above our felicity there is universally permanent there is all day and no night to all that upper World the Sunne goes round that glorious Globe without any interposition to any There is no drooping Soule in Heaven no wounded spirit in all the Land above nor never will Our life above is everlasting Shall of the spirit reape life everlasting c. Saith our Apostle There is such inspiration as shall never admit the least expiration in any comforts never faint nor flat no soule growes weary of place company habit dyet imployment every ones Heaven is an eternall Heaven every ones rest an eternall rest Some have beene in Heaven many thousands of yeares and yet not a thought of dislike of any thing there nor the least desire stirring to be any where else but the strong desire of all that all Gods deare ones were there The spirit and the Bride say come Christ and all those members hee has above pant for the rest that all were as they are one as they are one Joy is made as vast as the soule as lasting as the soule and the soule as lasting as Christ There are no broken Cisternes above not one Vessell drops out one droppe of its felicity in the space of eternitie though hee stand brim full No consumption no Disease above every thing lives yea and thrives for ever There is eternall Revelation in Heaven Infinite excellency taking suitable time to lay open it selfe to all others there 's Johns rapture to all eternitie All these particulars gathered up render the meaning of the Metaphor to be this That our felicity above is a full and absolute felicity a transcendent blessednesse suiting such a transcendent being as the soule of man is Vse Now my question to you all is what labouring for absolute felicity for blessednesse to suite your soules for ever 'T is the judgement that lies heavy upon the soules of most men they seeke not after full mercies a perfect blessednesse Feele your Pulse tell mee how your hearts beate how nimble doe they worke out after Earth How slow after Heaven I looke upon some men's Lives and my heart trembles to thinke what will become of their soules al the care is for the body how does Trading goe on How does money come in When is the Question How will 't goe with my soule for ever What blessednesse is provided for my soule to inherite Are your bodies everlasting Is this World everlasting Can any thing but Heaven make an absolute felicitie for you Are not your soules everlasting Can any thing lesse then Heaven make a suitable felcity for them Pravity is misleading but when the Soule is judged for this there is noe turning the man this consideration makes mee shake indeede when I consider how Earthy some men are and how wilfull in their way Speake to them of minding their Soules and beating off their thoughts from this VVorld you are as Vinegar to their Teeth and smoake to their Eyes When corruption thrives in the soule 't is dangerous but when it has got a head Ah Lord The state of that man is desperate Who shal save that man from Hell and bring him to Heaven which is earthy and wil be so still The Creature is seducing much is promised but it s still a lie to the soule the fulnesse of the World makes up no fulnesse to that noble part within If there bee any absolutenesse in things here below 't is in point of vanity they are Vanitie of vantie and vexation of spirit i Perfect vanitie just nothing as our English phrase is Consider all the Word in reference to the spirit and t is a heape of perplexitie A Bush of Briers and Thornes shall all your industry lie to Crowne your soules with Thornes With our Saviours Crosse and Curse Are you not scratcht enough with the World yet Will not your spirits be vext enough hereafter but will you be vexing of them here too Will you begin your Hell in Earth and inure your spirits to tearing and torment before the time Know your soules and what is the felicitie of them and what you doe do in good earnest to attaine it you move as you love Christ concluded that when the Jewish Church sleighted him If you love darkenesse better then light you will never seeke out for light nor for that Inheritance which hâ—s there If Heaven were more absolute felicitie or more transcendent blessednesses then 't is a heart pre-engaged i set upon an other Heaven will sleight Heaven indeede your life lies upon this poynt to looke how and where your love is picht where a mans Treasure is there will his Heart bee if you make money onely your Treasure you will onely bend in good earnest after it If you make not Heaven your chiefe Treasure you will not seeke after it heartilie Heaven has beene shadowed out to you according to the Metaphor in the Text is it now of any price in your Eye Has it gained your love 'T is a transcendent blessednesse are your hearts taken with it as such a blessednesse Till this I shall not looke to prevaile with any soule to seeke out after Heaven to any purpose 'T was the Art that Christ used when hee spake of eternall things first to set out the excellency of them to make that sparkle gloriously in the Eye to stirre love and then answerablie come on to doe good J am the Bread which came downe from Heaven c. J am the Bread of Life c. And hee that shall drinke of the Water that I shall give him shall never thiâ—st c. Many such expressions to take love you shall finde in the Scripture What have wee gained upon your love by all our discourse of Heaven An love bee as it was the man will be as hee was if Heaven be at his doore hee will step beside it into Hell Divine Love is that flame that carries the soule upward where this is not Heaven though all is nothing There is darkenesse And