The black devil or the apostate Together with the wolf worrying the lambs. And…The blacke devil or the apostate Together with the wolfe worrying the lambes. And…

Well yet, as salt and bitter as this Ocean the world is, there is some good wrought out of this ill. That supreme and infinite goodness dissuades his Children from affecting it, by their experienced tartness of it. So the Nurse embitters the dug, when she would wean the Infant. How easily had Solomon been drowned in this Sea, had he not perceived the distastefulness? when his understanding & sense concludes, All is vexations his affections must needs begin to abhor it. Gods lets his look into the world, as some go to Sea, to be Sea-sick: that finding by experience, what they would not credit by relation, they may loath this troublesome world, and long to be in the Land of Promise. He that once throughly feels the turbulency of the Sea, will love the •ry land, the better whiles he lives. Our better spiritual health is not seldom wrought, by being first Sea-sick, disquieted with the worlds vexations. ⟨p. 20⟩Salt water hath sometimes done as much good as sweet: hard things, as soft: as stones, as well as cotton, are good casting for a hawk. The crudities of sin in Davids soul were vomited up by a draught of this bitter water. That profuse Son would have been a longer stranger to his Fathers house; if the ¹World had not put him to a Hogs diet. Peter no sooner sees the billow, but he ejaculates to Christ, a short but substantial prayer, Lord, save me.

Well yet, as salt and bitter as this Ocean the world is, there is some good wrought out of this ill. That supreme and infinite goodnesse deswades his Children from affecting it, by their experienced tartnesse of it. So the Nurse embitters the dugge, when she would weane the Infant. How easily had Solomon bene drowned in this Sea, had hee not perceiued the distastfulnesse? when his vnderstanding & sense concludes, All is vexations his affections must needs begin to abhorre it. Gods lets his looke into the world, as some go to Sea, to be Sea-sicke: that finding by experience, what they would not credit by relation, they may loath this troublesom world, and long to be in the Land of Promise. He that once throughly feeles the turbulencie of the Sea, wil loue the •ry land, the better whiles he liues. Our better spirituall health is not seldome wrought, by being first Sea-sicke, disquieted with the worlds vexations.