The· Co e_inen-t. 29 6ecame him being aMagillrate) he honoured hii Chil~rea more than God. Yet he did honour ·God, and w-as a good man .: but through infirmity, and ~oo m·u~h louc ofhis chil– drcn,he was -borne away from that care ofthe glory ofGod .that he fhould ha~ehad; ana fo did bcsrewith them more ·. than he ought to haue done; and this was that finne~ fot' .which God did fo fharply both in worde reproue, and in dc-ede corre.6l: him. Thevfe_of this is,firO: to repr9ue all ignorant men, and P'fe J:.•· \tnregenerat perfons: it is rertaine they haue 'other Gods. For eucryvnrcgenerateman depends, either vponhimfcJfe, or fotneother thing el~e, neuer vpon God: as hee faith of fuch,. they faerificc vnto_ thi!ir nets, not that they did o'.fier Hab 1.t6'• burnt o·ffrings vnto them:but hccaufe theygot much wc~lth by violence,they thought their riches came fron-Hhat.,a-tld. ~hereforc imagined that God did not pr9uicle for ·thc1n, but that rheyhad pr~uided for themfdues:and fo did nor th~.rik~ themfducs beholding vntoGod,but vnto their owne hands that .could find meanes to get thefe outward things. Sothat . ' ' . eucry C3nlaH nian fets vp . himfclfe, hee,,doth nothing hue .., . feek and feruebi_mfelfe, anc! therefore is hi~ owne ldoll,and another God vnrohimfelfe. · . ' 11 · , This fe·rues alfo to humble Gods childrenoailywith ihe :s confidcration of it: for 'Nho liues fo -holily that doth not ~ · fometirnes feare men n1ore thanGod,and that doth not of .. ten depend toomuch vpon outward tneanes, and bath tlot ... toogreat aloue.ofeanhly things? · Thirdly,that wee may keepe this Commandem·ent, wee 3 fl1Utlle~·rne· to vfe all outward things, as though-wee vfed them net: that fo our minds and aftettions,and iudgements., tnaybe ready to ferue God,and wee ·may alfoprefie todoe his ·will. For whofocuer fets himfdfe to ·rootc in the eart-h . , and t~ 'lufi aftetworl~ly things,~is heart wil be fo occupiC'd_, ~nd .foreflalled thcrwJth,as that 1fhcbe called to~ny fen1ice ofGod;he mull fay,Ihauemarriedawifoand I cannot come: Luke~~+~ my farme& mine oxenwil not let-mecome: ··& al this while · he fees vp a GrangeGod. But t,hen fi1all we attaine ·to a fin– ~crc (though not perfeCt) obedience to thi$ Commande.. ~q c~ ment,
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