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 move not the Lord to take the gift from the ministers. The devil can cast wild fire into people's zeal and cause them make a God of a man in whom there is not much stuff, if he were fisted. Is comfort bound to any man's tongue above another? Balnam's ass once made a preaching that might have been a lesson to the ill man. I say, Sirs take God's meat, cook it who will. Alas! that ministers. by their wicked lives should spoil God's meat, so as the children skunner at it. Who would believe, when John was in an angel's company, ravished in spirit, and saw Christ so gloriously revealed to him, and such comfortable victories over Antichrist, and having his heart so well set to praise God, that he would have scappered into idolatry? Hence if we were in an angel's company, the devil and sin, like Judas, are lying in wait to insnare us. This world is as a great wood, at every tree-root and in every bush there lies a serpent. We had need to tell all our steps to heaven, and see whether we go right or wrong. When we are rejoicing in God, the devil can deceive us. Peter thought himself a humble man, when he said to Christ, Thou shalt never wash my et; but he was devilishly humble in praying reading hearing, communicating &c. Temptations are at our elbow. Satan, in Job's days came before the Lord to accuse the man: think ye not the devil is as bold as ever he was? And this ye that he dare not come to the communion-table? When Judas was at the table with Christ, Satan goes in with a sop. The devil has been at Christ's high messes, and will be waiting on to go into every believing soul. The world is