[ 1901] The proposall of Rewards and punishments, very usefull to the bringing into Christ.
A Spouse that is considering with her self, Whether she should marry such a Husband or not? beginneth to consider, What she should be without him, and what she shall have with him: she considers him perhaps as one that will pay her debts, and make her Honourable, &c, and yet, it may be, she considers not the Man all this while: however, these considerations are good preparatives to draw her on to give entertainment to him; but after some converse and ac∣quaintance with the person, she comes to like the Man himself so well, that she is content to have him, though she have nothing with him, and so she gives her full and free consent to him,* 1.1 and the match is made up betwixt them, out of true and sincere free love and liking. Thus it is, that the proposals of Rewards and punishment are,* 1.2 as it were, a beginning, a Prodromus, a good introduction to the full sight and frui••ion of God, When it is that Men begin at first to consider their own misery most, and that if they should apply themselves to other things as remedies,* 1.3 they would be still to seek; For there is a Vanity in all things; And if to themselves,* 1.4 that they cannot help themselves in time of Trouble; therefore they judge, that they must go to Almighty God, who is able to do more than all, and to rid them out of misery; And they consider, that going to