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CONSIDER that we all find that this worldly pilgrimage of ours, is longe and teadious. That such as are subiect to sinne, find thē selueswearied, and worne out in the paynefull wayes of iniquitie. That
such as are louers of vertue, and striue to approch neerest to God, are not exempt from temptations; nay the tribulations of the iust are many: though the Spirit be prompt, yet the body is infirme, and doth waigh downe the soule, and they are for∣ced to crye out mournefully with S. Paule who will deliuer vs from this mortall body. We all then both desire, and neede con∣solation: and in this Sacrament we confesse we may receiue the God of all consolation. Ought we not then ioyfully, and frequent∣ly haue recourse to him therin?
[Affection.] Lets still, my soule, seeke what we seeke; but lets not seeke it where we seeke it. True and permanent conso∣lations are not found, beleeue it my sou∣le, they are not found, saue in God alone; that father of mercyes, and God of all consola∣tion, who comforts vs in all our tribulations. Nor can we euer find God more happily, or mo∣re comfortably, then when we receiue him really, and truly possesse him. Heauen pos∣sesses him not more truly, where he is the eternallioy and beatitude of all the Blessed By how much more, then, my troubles and temptations are multiplyed, by so much more will I run to that sourse of so∣lace,
that fountaine of grace, as the wea∣ried Hart to the fountaines of fresh water.