Part 22 (1/2)

Dihtednes, in those that are eyes of a Republique, foretells a declineing State

xxxV

We read in Scripture of three sorts of Arrows--the arrow of an enemy, the arrow of pestilence, and the arrow of a slanderous tongue; the two first kill the body, the last the good name; the two forles hirave

xxxVI

Sore labourers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawnie consciences

xxxVII

Wickednes corees He that dares say of a lesse sin, is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!

xxxVIII

Soh the breast be rub'd ood or mustard, they will either wipe it off, or else suck doeet and bitter together; so is it with some Christians, let God eht feed upon more substantiall food, yet they are so childishly sottish that they are still huging and sucking these e up their ith thornes, or lay affliction on their loynes, that so they ht shake hands with the world before it bid them farewell

xxxIX

A Prudentand cuarment; she easily forsees what events it is like to produce, at the best but falls and bruises, or perhaps someorse, much more will the alwise God proportion his dispensations according to the Stature and Strength of the person he bestows the indowments of honor, wealth, or a helthfull body would quite overthrow soarht run the wayes of his Co is a lively e winter we se the leavlesse trees and dry stocks (at the approach of the sun) to resuor and beauty in a more ample manner then what they lost in the Autu vacation, when the Sun of righteousness shall appear, those dry bones shall arise in far lory then that which they lost at their creation, and in this transcends the spring, that their leafe shall never faile, nor their sap decline

XLI

A Wise father will not lay a burden on a child of seven yeares old, which he knows is enough for one of twice his strength, much less will our heavenly father (who knows our mould) lay such afflictions upon his weak children as would crush theth he will proportion the load, as God hath his little children so he hath his strong men, such as are cohty burdens on their shoulders, and yet they go upright under them, but it matters not whether the load be more or less if God afford his help

XLII

I have seen an end of all perfection (sayd the royall prophet); but he never sayd, I have seen an end of all sinning: what he did say, may be easily sayd by many; but what he did not say, cannot truly be uttered by any

XLIII

Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and angerthreats

XLIV

A sharp appetite and a thorough concoction, is a signe of an healthfull body; so a quick reception, and a deliberate cogitation, argues a soundwith drops, not from any innate moisture, but from a thick ayer about them; so may we sometime se marble- hearted sinners seerace within, but from some black Clouds that i effects

XLVI

The words of the wise, sath Solooads both used for contrary ends--the one holds fast, the other puts forward; such should be the precepts of the wise masters of assemblys to their hearers, not only to bid them hold fast the forht obtain

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