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Now that you may be further convinced that in the choice of the ways of godliness, you shall not lose, but change pleasures; you shall find pleasures sweet and satisfying, of a higher nature in them then ever before your souls were acquainted with; consider what Solomon saith of the ways of wisdom; Solomon, who had experience of all other pleasures whatsoever, yet of them he saith, Proverbs 3. 17. Her ways are ways of pleasantness.

NOw that you may be further convinced that in the choice of the ways of godliness, you shall not lose, but change pleasures; you shall finde pleasures sweet and satisfying, of a higher nature in them then ever before your souls were acquainted with; consider what Solomon saith of the ways of wisdom; Solomon, who had experience of all other pleasures whatsoever, yet of them he saith, Proverbs 3. 17. Her ways are ways of pleasantness.

That the yoke of Christ was an easy yoke, and the ways of godliness had ease in them, we have spoken largely: As they have ease, so they have pleasantness, all the ways of godliness are pleasant, to that at this time. Ordinarily we cannot expect any dependence in these Proverbs, but yet in this you have, there is a dependence of these words upon the 13. ver. and so from thence there is a connection of the several Proverbs.

That the yoke of Christ was an easie yoke, and the ways of godliness had ease in them, we have spoken largely: As they have ease, so they have pleasantness, all the ways of godliness are pleasant, to that at this time. Ordinarily we cannot expect any dependence in these Proverbs, but yet in this you have, there is a dependence of these words upon the 13. ver. and so from thence there is a connextion of the several Proverbs.