{ Preached in L E N T. } ;;;;;;;;;;~at amatter fo!Ieighdy robe !Iipped over. There is fomc danger (no doc~bt) and that more tha~ Will w!llmgly beacknm~ledged, to fuch as are JVealthy, andwell at eafein Sion. Samt GregorJ confeffeth by hunlelfe,that neve, any fenrence Amos 6.r. cnrred fo deep~ into his foulc as th!s, . And that, ~s S11r$tte mortmwas ever In Saint . . And Non in come(fattombtu, not 111 furfettmg, m Same Augttiltnes, by Rom.•J·J; Emm" eare . . . h I'. d h Id . which he wasfir{! convwed: So; thts was wit urn ; an e cou nor get It our of · his nunde. For, hdit.ting in the. See ofRoome, wh~n it was growen nehand.ofgreat receipt, was (as beefaith) fiillm doubt ofRec~puh: whetherlus exalnng Into that Cl · ~ioh· norbe his recompence at Go o • hands, and all that ever he lhou!d wrc '"" '· · r · A d I d b d I · R ;n·( h. h receivefromHim,forallhisterv•c.e. .n _ever 1e ou re tl!S , ecep'.J•' w ic we (, lily palfeover)and whether h1s cafe might not beltke. Thus did the goodFa. 1 ° ea·~nd (as I rhinke) not unwifely: And, would Goo, his example herein, might ner, 1· fi · r h · I · f 11 make due imprellion, and worke ike eare,mw many as ave,1n t 1e eyes o a men, receivedthegood things in tht. life. For, tillS may d_a1ly be feme every where, that divers,tha.rcccwcdthem,if ever any did;and that, 111 a meafure heaped l'Pand run– nino over; carry themfelves fo Without remembrance or regard of this pomr, as 1f no fuch Si17'ilewerein the ' cripture, as that of the Needles-eye: No fuchexa,pfe; as ofthis Rich man: No fuch Recordare, as this of Abraham, which we have in hand. Mlttb.Ig.:i.j., It ihould Ceeme, they h8ve learned ap~int of divinity, <.Abraham never kne1v: Balaams divinity (I fcare) to lo·ve the wages ofunrighteOII(ncffe andagift in the bofome,and >Pcu. • f· yet to cry Moriaturanima mea, His foulc fhould goefirJight toAbrabam's bo[ome fot Numb,>3:'"· allthat: And fo, inetfeCl:, to deny 4brabam's Conflqt~ence. · We muil:thenjoyneiffue upon the maine point, we cannot avoid it: To en:: ·quire, how this 'lV•vtberefore commeth in: And !1ow £1tre, and to whom, this Confcquent holdtth. I demand then: Was hee tnefrtore tormented, becaufe bee received good things .? Is this thecafe of all tkm that wefire pttrplt and (are well in this life~ Shall every one, to whom Go o reacheth (uch good thmgs as thefe, be quit for ever from Abraham's bofome? By no meJnts. For, C11jm crt.{intu, whofe is the bofome? Is it not u1braham's? And, whJt was <.Abraham? Looke (Jene– fis XI I I. rerfe I I. Abraham w.u rich tn catuU, infilver andgold, There is hope rhenfor rich men, in arich mans bofome. Then, the bofomeit fdfe is a rich mans, rhoughaLazarm be in it. Yea, though we finde here Lazartu in it :yet elfe.where, . wefinde, he is not all. For, thegreat ' Lordthat bare rule under ~eene CandMes: aM18.•7· · The b elea Lady: IofephofArimathea, and' the Areopagite (grave and wife Coun. : ~&~~;.;~. fellours:) Th~ d Pt<rple-fe!ler(and ifthe Purple-feller,why not the Purple-wearer~) d · ,. '+• Yes, the ' Purple-wearerroo, were in earth, Saints (as wereade) and are (we doubt e Dan,pg. not)inAhabam's b•fomeal[o. It wa'tnot therefore, becaufe he wasrich: for then mufl: A6raha111 himfelfe have beenefubjechorhe fame fentence. Nay, one may fo be rich, andfo ufe his riches togeiher, as they fl1all conclude in the other jgttre ~nd end in fo!aru; and no wayes hinder, bm helpe forward his ;~ccompt; and bri~ghim a fecond recipies ofthe good thmgs of thateternalll&. And (1f you markeit well) we have here, in this Scrip· ture,rworich men:' One, that giveththeRecordare: >The other, to whom it is gi– .ven. The example ofarich man, which rich men to avoid, Thefenrence ofarich man, wh'ch rich men to remember. . It is evident : It was nor, for that he had received goodthings in this life: See; ( mg, as true!y as Abraham {~id to him, Sonne remember, thott didfl receivegoodthings: Sorrucly m>ght he have rc)oyned, Father remember,tho11 didft receive,&c. It was not that. , hN~itherwasir, becaufehecame by them unduely, hy fuch wayesand meancsi :; as t e oule of Go n abhorreth: For, it i~ (faithBernard) Rmrdare quia recepi(li; nor ~~•.rapuijli, ?t quiJdeccpifti, by ravine, or deceipt. Ctther was1t,becaufehe receivedrhem,andwrappedthemup.For 1 as hi~teceipts ~ · Eez are
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