[ CVII] Carnall pleasure to be changed into Spirituall pleasure.
IT is reported of one Leonides a Captain,* 1.1 who perceiving his Souldiers left their Watch upon the City-walls,* 1.2 and did nothing all the day-long, but quaff and tipple in Ale-houses, near adjoyning; commanded, that the Ale-houses should be removed from that place where they stood,* 1.3 and be set up close by the Walls, that seeing the souldiers would never keep out of them, at the least they might watch as well as drink in them. So, because we itch after delight and pleasure, we must needs have,* 1.4 and we cannot be kept from it; God hath appointed, that we should take delight enough,* 1.5 and yet serve him never a whit the lesse: For, it is no part of Gods meaning, when we enter into his sweet service, that we should be debarred of all delight, but onely that we should change the cause of our delight, delight of the service of sin, into a delight in the service of God. Isaac must not be sacrificed, but the Ram, all rammish and rank delight of the world, not Isaac; i. e. all spirituall laughter, all ghostly joyes, all heavenly delight and pleasure.