A Divine Cordial

1. Dese•tion works a cure upon the soul. 1. It cures sinful somnolency. We find the Spouse fallen upon the b•d of sloth, Ca•t. 5.2, I sleep; and presently Christ was gone, Vers. 6. My beloved had withdrawn himself. Who will speak to one that is drowsy? 2. Desertion cures inordinacy of affection •o •he world, 1 John 2.15. Love not the world. We may hold the world as a Posy in our hand, but it must not lye too near our heart; we may use it ⟨p. 48⟩as an Inn where we take a bait, but it must not be our home. Perhaps these secular things steal away the heart too much. Good men are sometimes sick with a Surfeit, and drunk with the luscious delights of prosperity; and having spotted their silver wings of grace, and much defaced Gods Image by rubbing it against the earth, the Lord to recover them of this, hides his face in a Cloud; this Eclipse hath good effects, it darkens all the glory of the world, and causeth it to dis-appear.

1. Dese•tion works a cure upon the soul. 1. It cures sinful somnolency. We find the Spouse fallen upon the b•d of sloath, Ca•t. 5.2, I sleep; and p•e•ently Ch•ist was gone, Vers. 6. My beloved had withdrawn himself. Who will speak to one that is drowsie? 2. Desertion cures inordinacy of affection •o •he world, 1 Iohn 2.15. Love not the world. We may hold the world as a Posie in our hand, but it must not lye too near our heart; we may use it ⟨p. 48⟩