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Thirdly, God is a tender Father, and he would have all the Love of his Children; he would not have his Children to love their Nurse more than himself: Our Joy, and Peace, and Comfort, is but the Nurse of our Graces; now when God sees that his Children fall in love more with the Nurse, than with himself, then he removes the Nurse, and causes their Peace to be suspended and interrupted: he will not have the Nurse to be loved more than himself.

Fourthly, Sometimes God doth suffer this cloud to arise upon the Peace and Comforts of his People,¹ that he may train them up unto more perfection; Comfort is the Children's Milk: ye may observe therefore, that the weaker Christian hath sometimes more lively, sensible Comforts, than the stronger Christian hath; Why? but because this inward Joy, and Peace, and Comfort, is that Milk, and sweet Honey whereby they are drawn off from the pleasures and sweetness of the world; and as these Comforts do wean us from the worlds comforts, so we have need to be weaned again from these weaners, which God doth sometimes by restraining of them, and so we grow up unto more perfection.

Fourthly, Somtimes God doth suffer this cloud to arise upon the Peace and Comforts of his People,¹ that he may train them up unto more perfection; Comfort is the Childrens Milk: ye may observe therefore, that the weaker Christian hath somtimes more lively, sensible Comforts, than the stronger Christian hath; Why? but because this inward Joy, and Peace, and Comfort, is that Milk, and sweet Honey whereby they are drawn off from the pleasures and sweetness of the world; and as these Comforts do wean us from the worlds comforts, so we have need to be weaned again from these weaners, which God doth somtimes by restraining of them, and so we grow up unto more perfection.

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