172. I Offetking Godsface. --------~~--~--~------~--- [4ou m.aiefi, but ·thou lhalt goe to h~ll W.ich thy liberty and credit. lhefe are the eye and the hand, and it is better going tO he~ven:wit'boHt them, then • eobe throwne into hell with rhem: but if thoube– ell: content to ·lofe aUrhe(e, thou fhalcgaineby it. That man that is moll: forwardtq.fuffer any thing for Chri'fi and Gods caufe, provides hefl: tor him– felfe. . IudttJ going about to make 'himfelfe rich, · loft himfelfi:-, it w;~s his undoing. Peur and the re£1: lcf~ all, and gained happineife. What w~s Pttf!ls making, but his going from prifon to prifon ·~ how did J..AlirabAm faye his fonne, but by being coatent tooffer ·him - ~ what w.1s.ir gainedMo(es fo much honour, as to be the leader of .Gods peo.ple, . and to be fo great a Propher, but the loftog and re– fufing his honours and pleafures in ./Egypt I That man that comes to refolve, I will be content to be ofno reputation, fo I may feeke and ferve ~he Lord, that man is ol,the riling hand, it is theonely way to prefeUl,lenr: o·n the contrary,he that faith,I muft and,.will befome,body in the world, that man is in his downfall~heis rui-ning himfelfc• . S4ulr thinking . to enrich himfelfe by the Carrell, was .his ruine;. I eroboam byplots to keepe the Kingdome, .loft the Kingdome, and undid himfelfe. . , . ls it of fo much confequence to feek Go~ for himfelfe ~ then take heed offorgetting the Lord in the m!dfl: of all his mercies. .It is an ufuall thing, that God is hidden and covered from us in his be– nefits we receive from him ; and wherea·s they ihould ~ be as ~laffes and as fp~etacles to hdpe the weakenelfe of qur 'fight of him,they prove often as . · - clouds , .-----.!..-------:------.__,...-----'J
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