384 In what things thult we ufe Moderation, Sergi. 6 what we 'hall eat,or what we 'hall drink or wherewithal we Thal! be clo- thed (which three are the total fum all thefe externals amount to in their ufe) Met. 6.19, 24,250c. Our bleffed SaN lour from the 19th verfe of that Chapter, forbidding this immoderate purfuit in thofe negative precepts, which he prof eth with feveral cogent arguments and expoitulatìans; and nor abfolurely, but fo as they be not our trea- fures that we fer our hearts upon, our zwaflers th it we ferve, when as they are but our Servants, and fo as that we oppofe hem not to , and fet them in competition with the treafurs in Heaven, and God our great Mafier whom we ought to ferve even in the following our em- ployments for thefe ; as appears verf 19, and 24. nor abfolutely our taking thought , but our too fsilicitoufneis about the choice of, and ding means, and efpecially their event, and fo confequently what (hall become of us, if we be not blefi but buffed therein as appears- by thcaword ,u-e t.os' 7 and laft verfe of the Chapter. And yet (alas!) after all this how do we feek them as if they were our treafure our happinefs, our all? as if here was our continuir g City, wherein we Mould always live, and have thefe treafures, and none other to come that hath better ? Though thefe be things after which the Gentiles leek, yet they will be exculabte who know no Netter in coruparilon of thee and me, who know the true Pearl of price are invited and called to better dainties, and yet make light thereof, one preferring his Farm, another his Merchandife, Moitth. 22.5. And yet though the generali- ty of the Gentiles which bad not the Gofpel, as the ;CVs in our Savi- ours time, were fo immoderate ; yer many of them were filch as ap- pears by their works, and lives; as I fear will rife up in Judgement in this particular, againft molt of us that call our feives Chriflians. They beholding the bufie World (as one of them fpeaks of the souls in the other) as the Ant carrying a ftraw, or fon;e little thing, of like mo- ment, into her hole in the Mole-hill ; which yet dazels our eyes with their Teeming lufter, and makes our hearts fay of thefe our houfes as if they were our bornes, 'tis good for us to le here. 4. We mull moderate our whole man in the ufe and enjoyment ofthefe, in our laving, delighting, rejoicing and glorying in them. We n.uft not in our ding of them, exceed the bounds within which they are allowed us; nor in our love towards them, 1 Yohn 2. 15. Love not the World, neither the things thcet are in the World,by taking too much complacen- cy and delight in them; not our rejoycing, .cclof. 1 i. 9. If thuu.doft, know,for all thefe things God will bring thee to 7udgment.Nay- our Savi- our when the Difciples ret erned With joy that the Devils Were fubjen to them,
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