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Book.
I.
Chap.
z.Sed.
r.
as
if
a
man fhould run up and down ftreets after a feather flying
in the aire, and
to
!fed hither and thither with the gull:s and blafts
of infinite mens mouths; it is a queftion whether ever he get ir,
but if he do,
it
is
but
a
feather; fuch is this pride oflife, ho–
nour, vain-glory; itishard toobtaineit, but if obtained, it is
but the breath of a few mens mouths, that alter upon every
light occolion ; bur that which is worft of all , it hinders our
fight
of jdi1s
Ch~·ill.,
>W
liN
n_Y
lvife
men after theflefh , not many
1
Cor.
1.
1
6.
mighty, not
man.1
r;nh:r
• .
.:.
tied ;
woridl·y honour keeps many
back from Chrill: ;
~
..
u
there(ore
MofeJwhtn he was come to year>,
Hrb
11 _14 , 16 ;
refufed to bhe
c~(lcihltifl?e
{otme
CJ
•
Phharahohs
d
1
ath~ghter,
--
efleeming
the reproac
es
o
1
C
rr
greai'Pr
rrc
.eJ
z
en
4
t .e treafu1'eJ of
Egypt.
Jfthe bimde
man
in the way to
'ferico
had depended on the
breath, or liking,
or
approbation of the multitude, he had never
rec-eived thebenefitofhis fight,for
they
(faith the text)
which
Luko8.
~9-·
1
z..
b h
l'J h ·Jh
went before
mm~d
him
t
.at
e
jh011
a
·
ola
u
pettcr
·
they dif-
fwadcd him from· running and crying fo
vehem~ntly
after
Chrill;
experience tells us, how the(e things pull and draw
us
off.
from
Jefus (hrift~the
tufts of
the
eyes, the tufts ofthe flefh, and
p~idc
oftife.
.
-
~eft·
2
~
But why muft we
/()()k..off
every thing that diverts our
looking
unto ]-'tfzu?
r
I.
Becaufe we cannot look fixedly on Chrift, and fuch things.
together, and at once ; the eye cannot look upwards and down–
wards, at once in - a direct
line~
w..: cannot ferioufly.minde hea.
Mat.6,
14
ven and earth in one thought;
noman canferve two maflers,faith
Chrill,efpecially fuch as jar,and who have contrary imployments.
as Chrift.and Mammon have.
2.
Becaufe whiles we look on thefe things we cannot fee the
beauty that is in Chrift; fuppofe a fquint look on Cbrift,
while't we have a dired look on other things, alas Chrift will
be ofno efteem that while ; this was the voice offinners concern-
B[~y
B· , .
ing
<~ hrift,
hehtttb no j&rme, nor comelineffc, and
w!;rrJ
we fee
him-, there is no
b~aaty
that we fhould dejire him.
Indeed
be~uty
is the attradive of the foule, the
foul~
muft fee a neauty in
that which it lets out it felfe to in deGring: but our
wilhing~
looks on other thir.gs, makes Chrift but mean and contemptible
inour
eyts.
3.
Becaufe all othenhings, in comparJfon ofChrift, are not:
·
·
worthy:
.