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amatter fo!Ieighdy robe !Iipped over. There is fomc danger (no
doc~bt)
and that more
tha~
Will w!llmgly be
acknm~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 mortm
was 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 was
fir{!
convwed: So; thts was wit
urn ; an
e cou
nor get It our of
·
his nunde. For, hdit.ting in the. See of
Roome,
wh~n
it was growen
ne
hand.ofgreat
receipt,
was (as beefaith) fiillm doubt of
Rec~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 Go
o,
his example herein, might
ner,
1·
fi
·
r
h
·
I
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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'P
and run–
nino over; carry themfelves fo Without remembrance or regard of this pomr, as 1f
no fuch
Si17'ile
werein 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 a
p~int
of divinity,
<.Abraham
never kne1v:
Ba-
laams
divinity
(I
fcare)
to lo·ve the wages ofunrighteOII(ncffe anda
gift
in the bofome,and
>
Pcu. •
f·
yet
to
cry
Moriaturanima mea,
His foulc fhould goefirJight to
Abrabam
's
bo[ome
fot Numb,>
3:'"·
all
that: And fo,
in
etfeCl:, 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 a
rich mans bofome.
Then, the
bofomeit
fdfe is
a
rich mans,
rhougha
Lazarm
be in it. Yea, though we finde here
Lazartu
in it :yet elfe.where,
.
wefinde, he is not
all.
For, the
great ' Lord
that bare rule under
~eene
CandMes: a
M18.•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 was
rich:
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~g
him a fecond
recipies
ofthe
good
thmgs
of thateternalll&. And (1f you markeit well) we have here,
in
this Scrip·
ture,rworich men:' One, that giveththe
Recordare:
>The other, to whom it is gi–
.ven. The example ofa
rich man,
which rich men to avoid, Thefenrence ofa
rich
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~
(faith
Bernard) Rmrdare quia recepi(li;
nor
~~•.rapuijli,
?t
quiJdeccpifti,
by ravine, or deceipt.
Ctther was1t,becaufehe receivedrhem,and
wrapped
themup.For
1
as
hi~teceipts
~
·
Eez
are