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3. The Tenure whiles they live.

3. The Tenure whiles they liue.

Alas! what gain we by searching further into this evidence? the more we look into it, the worse we like it. Whiles they live. The 1. Tenure of Madness. 2. in the Heart. 3. is for term of life. Too long a time for so bad a Tenant. But you will say unto me, as the Disciples to Christ: ¹Who then can be saved? Nunquid daturus est Deus regnum coelorum stul•is? Will God give the Kingdom of heaven to madmen? Fear not, all are not mad-men that have madness a Tenant in their hearts; but they that have it for their Landlord. It is not my distinction,² but Saint Pauls, Rom. 7. Sin may dwell, ⟨p. 77⟩nay,³ Sin will dwell in your hearts; let it not reign there, saith the Apostle. It must be a household servant, it must not be a King. Aliud est habere insaniam, aliud haberi ab insania. It is one thing to have madness, another thing for madness to have thee. Since it will dwell in thee, whiles thou dwellest in the flesh, make it a servant, a slave, a drudge. Set the Gibeonites to draw water; let it make thine eyes lave thy body with repentant tears: and to cleave wood, let it rend thy heart with sorrow. Keep that subtle deceiver, with whom thou ignorantly struckest the hand of covenant, under bit and bridle: veil, revel, turn, restrain, command, control it at thy pleasure. Let it never be thy Captain, thy Landlord, thy King.