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therefore as Christ refused the vinegar & would not drink it when he had tasted it:¹ So let no man drink of sorrow before he taste it: But if any thing eat thee up, let the zeal of Gods house eat thee up: for thy charge is not to get thy living with the care of thy mind, but with the sweat of thy brows. Now (as James saith) Resist the devil, & he will fly from you: ²So resist sorrow, and it will fly from you. This is all the care, and all the fear, and all the repentance, which ever I could find in the Scripture.³ Therefore let us pray God every day to turn all our joy into the joy of the Holy Ghost, and all our peace into the peace of conscience, and all ⟨p. 858⟩our sorrow into the sorrow for sin, and all our fear into the fear to sin, that so we may sorrow & rejoice together, fear & hope together: that is, have one eye to the Law to keep us from presumption, and another eye to the Gospel to keep us from despair, and then this comfort is sent to us, Rejoice ever more, or else we have nothing to do with it.

therefore as Christ refused the vineger & would not drinke it when he had tasted it:¹ So let no man drinke of sorrow before he taste it: But if anie thing eat thee vp, let the zeale of Gods house eate thee vp: for thy charge is not to get thy liuing with the care of thy minde, but with the sweate of thy browes. Now (as Iames saith) Resist the deuil, & hee will flie from you: ²So resist sorrowe, and it will flie from you. This is all the care, and all the feare, and all the repentance, which euer I could find in the Scripture.³ Therefore let vs pray God euery day to tourne all our ioye into the ioy of the Holy Ghost, and all our peace into the peace of conscience, and all ⟨p. 858⟩