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Carnal Joy cannot repel its Contrary; it cannot endure the Assaults of the slight and transient Evils, to which we are exposed here. Sickness, ⟨p. 376⟩Disappointments, Apprehensions of Evils that hover over us, may embitter the most pleasant Condition. A wounded Spirit, like an ulcerous Palate that is fretted and pained with the sweetest things, turns all the Pleasures of the World into Vexation. Fear struck Belshazzar at his Feast into a trembling. But Peace with God, and the Joy that flows from it, the World can neither give nor take away: 'tis as unable to destroy it as to produce it. Believers rejoice in Tribulations.¹

Carnal Joy cannot repel its Contrary; it cannot endure the Assaults of the slight and transient Evils, to which we are expos'd here. Sickness, ⟨p. 376⟩Disappointments, Apprehensions of Evils that hover over us, may imbitter the most pleasant Condition. A wounded Spirit, like an ulcerous Palat that is fretted and pain'd with the sweetest things, turns all the Pleasures of the World into Vexation. Fear struck Belshazzar at his Feast into a trembling. But Peace with God, and the Joy that flows from it, the World can neither give nor take away: 'tis as unable to destroy it as to produce it. Believers rejoice in Tribulations.¹

1. 1Rom. 5. 2, 3.

All Carnal Joys are of short Continuance. The World passes away, and the Lusts thereof. Life is ¹dying, and the Comforts of it. All Flesh is Grass, and the Glory as the Flower of the Grass; that by Heat or Cold, by a Blast or a Worm is soon destroyed. All the Objects of the sensual Passions are very fading. The finest Stamp of Beauty