A breathing after God. Or a Christians desire of Gods presence. By the late…

Now although God cast common blessings promiscuously ⟨image 5⟩upon good and bad, yet he holds his best favours at a distance as Parents do Cherries or Apples from their children, to whet their appetites the more after them. And indeed the best perfection of a Christian in his military condition is, in desire and expectation, and it is enough to him that, for that he hath Gods acceptation, who knowing whereof ⟨image 5⟩we are made, and how unable to hold wait in the balance of the Sanctuary, takes his best Gold with grains of allowance.

Now although God cast common blessings promiscuously ⟨image 5⟩upon good and bad, yet hee holds his best favours at a distance as Parents doe Cherries or Apples from their children, to whet their appetites the more after them. And indeede the best perfection of a Christian in his military condition is, in desire and expectation, and it is enough to him that, for that he hath Gods acceptation, who knowing whereof ⟨image 5⟩wee are made, and how unable to hold waite in the ballance of the Sanctuary, takes his best Gold with grains of allowance.

The soul of man is like a Cipher, which is valued by that which is set before it: if it weary it self in the desire of earthly things, like the Silk-worm, it finisheth its work with its own destruction: but if on ⟨image 6⟩things above, when this earthly Tabernacle is turned to Ashes, there shall result a glorious Phoenix for immortality.

The soule of man is like a Cipher, which is valued by that which is set before it: if it weary it selfe in the desire of earthly things, like the Silke-worme, it finisheth its worke with its owne destruction: but if on