r,_ 113 qffb:e Ìigh mdii,anaLazarus. Beare to GOD , and hee greatly !cued him : yetLatarsac, (whom God fo loued ) hued in no cafe, theText fayth, in pate. From whencewe may gather(as was noted before) that the godlyare (vfually) molt affliâed . This was fpoe ken ofbefore,vpon thefe words of the 2 o.verfe,whichwas lard at his gate,e*-c : And the Lordwill haue it to befo,fbr thefe reafons. l~irft,that the F1'J3, might haueno caufe to rea ioyce before him. z. Cor. z.29. Secondly, that men might delire godlineffe for it felfe : who otherwayeswould bee godly (or feeme to be)that they might (for it) enioy tome cafeand profperitieheere. Ado this would make them to feeke earthly things in matters that arepure and heauenly. Thirdly,ithat theymight feeke him,and depend vpon him onely : which they willdo in their troubles,and hardly do when theyare at more liberty.And fourthly,that themem- bers might be like their head, who wasa man of forrows. Vfc. No caufe(therfore)to fufpe& the Gofpell, to be the wrong way toparadife,becaufe it would bringvs thither by trou. bles : rather by this, that it is preached to thepore.Luc4. I $. and that the poorereceyue it Lull. 7. z 2. We may be fuie that ifthere bee any more direct way to heauen then other, this is it. Andwe knowwho they were that fayde, Doea. t:7 ofthe Riders beleeue in him ? Iohn 7.48. Ifthen thou bee poore, and in diftretfe, let not that condition ofthy pro- fellion,in fo nearea fimilitude to Chrifl, difmay thee; but reioyce rather, that thou art fo like to thy Sauiour in that, wherein was the leaft worldly thew, and thegreateft hea- uenly glory : For now thou ftandeft not vpon any weake prop offleth, butvpon the firong pillar of Ifrael,in whole name thou trufieft. Somuch for theEft impoffibility in Abraham; reply, thefecond followeth. Verfe a6. Andbetides Rllthir,betweer vsandyore there is axreat golfe, c. Heere weehaue thefecund parte offlbrotbami reply where
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