Looking unto 1efus. Book IV. the yoake of Gn, and the yoake of the law firicrly taken, into the fweetnelfe of his fatherly regiment, whofe very precepts carry part of their reward in hand, and alfurance of glory afterward. · The reafons of the fweetneffe, eallnelfe, ttnd pleafantneffc of Cbriftian Religion, and the pracrife of it, I flu II reduce into thefe heads. 439 1. Cl1ri!l:ian Religion is rnofi rational. If we !hould Iool• into the betllaws that the wifeft men in the world ever agreed upon, we !hall finde that Chr.ifi adopted the quinte!fe~ce of them all into thi sor.e law; the h1ghelt p1tch of reafon 1s but as a fparke, a taper, a Ieifer light, which is involved and [wallowed up in the body of this great light, that is made up by the Sun of, righteoufnelfe. Some obferve that Chtlifis difcipline is the breviary of a!! the wifdome of the befi men, and a fa ire coppy and tranfcript of his Fathers wifdome; there is nothing in the laws of Chri!l:ian Religion, b'uc·what is perfective ofour fpirits, rare · expedient ofobeying God, and o.fdoing duty and benefit to all capacities and orders of me!J. Indeed the Greeks, whom the world admired for their humane wifdome, accounted the preach~ ing of the Gofpel foolilhneffe, and thereupon God blafied their wifdome as it is written, I will deft roy the wi(dome ofthe wife_, and 1 Cor. I. 19 , wilt bring to notkiJIJg the underftan.ding of the prudent, r Cor. 1. 19. the Gofpel may be as foolilhnelfe unt9 fome, but m1tb them whicbt!lre Cll!!ed -C'hrift the power ofGod>:_fnJthe Wi(dJme ofGod. r~tl!l -~ -~ ;., . . ' I Cor.r. 14; 2· Chrifti~n Rdigi?n hath lelfe tr~mble ¥~'1J.il.~iji in it than - fin, or any thmg that IS contrary to 1t, as f&~rf;litaA'ce; he that propounds to himfelfe to live a low, a pious, 'an 'humble andre- - tired life, his maine emp~ oyment is~ notping but Gtting religioufiy quiet, and undifturbed with wariety, {>£impertinent affaires; but he that loves the world- . eiJ te~tafi'le"s a thoufand buGneifes and every bufinelfe hath a worid of employments: how ea!Je a 'thing is it to reftore a pledge ? but ifa m1n meanes to defeate, or to cozen him that tt·ufls him, what a world of arts mull: he ufe to make p~ete?ces ? as tirfi to d..' lay, then to excufe, then to object, then t~ mtncate. the bJGne!fe, then to quarrel; and all the way to palhal:e the enme, and to reprefent h1mfelfe an honefl: man : the wayes ofGn are crooked, defert, rocky, and uneven wayes : the
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