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Book.
I.
Looking unto 'fefos,
Chap.
2.
Sett.r~
1.
We mu£1: look off this world in refped: of its finful plea.
JuJexlr.'9·
fures;
l!'de
telis us,
(uh
aJ are fenfual have
not
the fpirit :
We
cannot hxedly look on ple1fures, and
look on [ ejuJ
at once.
'fob
Job,tl.n,q,
tells
us, that
they that tak£ up the Tim/ml, and Harpe, and rejoyce ,
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4> 15•
at the.feu,;d ofthe Organ, that/pend their dayes in mirth,
are
the fame that
fay unto G'od, depart jrom
m,
for we dejire not
the
Jwowledge ofthy wayet; what is the Almighty
thatw~
fhouldferve
him?
mzdwhat pnfit fhouldwe haveifwepray m1to him?
We
have
a
lively example of this in
A_uguftinu
converGon; he would
indeed have had Cbriff, and his pleafures too, but when he faw
it would not be
!
Oh what conflicts were within him
?
In his
Orchard
(
as he ftories it in his book ot confefitons) all his plea-
.,....
.
. fures pail reprefented themfdves before his eyes, faying,
Whlft
v~~~
.
.
(ft
amomento
wtlt
thoudep.:~;·t
from >tJ(orever?
a~~jhafl.w_ebe
ne_more wuh thee
ijlo
non
erimPA
for eva· ?
0
Lord (
fazth
Augufttne,
wntmg thts confeffion)
tccum·ultrain
turne away my minde from thinkjng t h,rt which they objeEled to my
arer~um?
Aug,
foul! What filth? What fhameful pleafures did they lay before my
~/:~:~:~'fe·
eyeJ
? .
At
length
a~ter
t_his combate
a
lhowre of t-eares came
ujque'luoltjuam
from
hm~
, and caftmg htmfelfon the ground under
a
Ftg-tree ,
diu, quam diu
hecryes 1t
ou~,
0
Lord, how lcng, how_lcng fhalllJay, to morrow,
Has.et
(!las?
to morrow,? Why not
to
d"y Lerd, why not to
dt~y?
why fhould
quarell~nm
1
odo?
there not bean end of my
~/thy
life evrn at thiJ houre?
Immedi-
quarc
nm
7ac
1
fi
I .
h
b
d .
.
·r·
I
db
f b
. l
IJor•finiStft
ateya tertlts e ear avo!Ce, ast tt 1a
eeno a oyorgtre
turpitudinis
fingmg
by,
tak!
ttp,
t~nd
reade; tak!
up,
and ;·eade;
and
th~reup
me111.Aug. Ibid.
on opening his Bible that lay by hzm at hand, he reade
in
Glencc
Tolle(9'/egc,
the tirft Chapter that offereQit fel f , wherein was written,
l
todllc
0'bl~gc,
Let us wv.llzhoneft!J aJ in'the
dffe.
,
not in rioting and drunk,ennef{e,
Clll 1
I
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ft
"f"
d
.
I.
Rom.
1
3 .
1
J
.q
not
m
cnamoermg or wPrnton;qe e
,
not
tn
n e
an eiii?Jymg
,
out
·
put ye
en
the Lord JcfttS, and mak! net provi(ion for the flefh tofulfil
the
iuftJ thereof Frmher th"cn this fentence /1vould not rc.1d
(faith
.Llugujline ) neither indeed was it needful, for prefcntly as iflighp
had been po11red into my heart, all the darknrf{eofmy doubtfulnefr
fled arvay.
His eye was now taken off
pis
pleafures
,
and
~ore-
"ver after it wasfet on
refm.
.
2.
We mu£1:
look.off'thisworld
inrefpect of its Gz;ful profits: a
1
Job.
'5·
look on this
ke~ps
offour
locking unto Jefus. Wh..(oe1-•er loveth the
world, the love ofthe Father
'fs
not in Lim;
juft
fn
much
as
the
world prevailes in us, fo much is Gods love abated both in us ,
and towards us;
y
t~du!tmrJ,
and ad11ltrtjfes
(faith
{amtJ)
/ztiow