oftheRich man,and LaZaros. a a S liappineffe, ifwee fuffer no troubles here t' How can our teares be wiped away,when we haue fliednone?how can we be like our head, if wee will bee crowned with rote/ buds,where he was crownedwith thornes? and ifweedoe not fuffer with him, howcan wee reigne with him: The Cattell that goes in thebeli pafIureisforflaughter, where that thatfeedes on the bare Common isfor (lore : fo they are for the Axe rather then for any continuance,who hue altogether at cafe in the heft paRuresofSion; where they that are kept on the bares Commons eftroubles for well doing, are theLords owne flore. Secondly, aman drowned is pall hclpe: and what helpe for thofe thatare drowned in thepleafures asit were a whole fea of fìnne ? Thirdly, here they fayd to God, 'Depart fromvs) lob. s 1.14 : hereafter God will fay to thé, Depart from 'neeyce workersof iniquitie. Het e they fen tied their pleafures, and had no pleafure to ferue God : heereo after their pleafures fhall kaue them which they ferued, & God whom they would notferue, !hall condemne them. Here theywouldnot bee faued, and hereafter they fhalí not : for Chrifl will fay to filch, asto 1ertafalem, 1 would, butyee made! not, Math.%3.37. Fourthly, the tenour and order ofGods iuilice is inuiolable. Now it is a Ipecial part ofthe gloryofhisiuflice, as to flew forth his mercyon the righteous, fo to execute his fierce wrath vpon vnrighteous perfons and fìoners, Roza. i.6 : therefore thewiddow that liueth in pleafures is fayde to be dead while the liueth, r. Tim. s .6. I conclude then,that the life ofpleafures is adead life, or life ofdeath : I meane,offecond death. And it is fo that men cannot in the manner that this Rich man did,liue herein pleafures, andhereafter in hea. Vfe. t. uene then in what cafe and taking are the pampered &s: full fed Mates ofour dayes, with other tipling companions, who ferue their belly,and not the Lord Iefus Chrifl, Rom. 116. i 8. where is their hope?andwhat cófort haue they,er can they haue,that euer they íhai be fauedin this courfe ?or ifGod in the mean while fhouldcall them away by de !tat (,2
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