Serra. i6. and in what not? 385 thern,Lte&. t o r7.which was a divine and extraordinary gift,calls them off, and (news diem a fit matter of rejoycing, wherein they could not exceed, not abfulutely forbidding,but limiting them with a rather,but rather rejoyce that your names are written in heaven,v :2ò.nor in our glo- rying in them,7er.9.23,24.Oh what need of moderation here! In our eating;drinking, fleeping, lawful recreations, raiment ; in the ufing of our parts, Learring,Riches,Honours,ard other Creature comforts ! If the enjoyment of thefe outward things had been fo confiderable,thínk you our b';efáecdSaviour,who could have commanded them,would have wanted them ? What are the bell: of them ? Are thy Riches any thing, but of the earth , nd earthly ? Thy Pleafures any thing, but a f t1e titillation of the Oath, of no permanent nature lives but one inflant and dies as fafi? Thy Honour any thing, betides a hollow eccho or noife that like thecircle of the water,is but of little circumference and foon gone ?Doth not everycrofs vtiind,or wave,break and dafh it awa } ? Is not he that's great in this City, fcarce known in the next ? He that's King in one nation, unkno« n to many other nations ? How (fort li- ved, I pray ? Have there rot been many great ones we never heard of ? Thofe we read, do we not skip their names often , not troubling our felves with the thought or remembrance of them ? If we do, what are they the better? Read Peal, 103. 14,1 ,16,17,18. Nay, have not the greateft judgements of God followed excels in things lawful? I will trouble you with none but a few Scriptural Examples : Two of the greatefi the World ever knew, the flood,and deftrudion of Sodom and the rell of the Cities of the Kin; to what are they afcribed but Securi- ty and Exce fs ? They did eat, they drank, they married Wives they were gives: in marriage : W hat follows ? The flood came and deftroycd them all, Luke 17.27. Likewif e in the days of Lot, they did eat, they drank, they bought, they fold, they planted, they builded, (all again things lawful in . themfelves)but the fame day that Lot went out of Sodom it rainedfire and brimflone from heaven, and deftroy,d them all, v. 28, 29. If David too much pride and glory in the number of his people and fall to num- b:iing the m, God quickly follows with Peflilence, and makes them de- create feventy the;ufa rid, iChron,2I.s4..If Nebuchadnezzar will vaunt, Is not this great Babylon that I have built ;by the might of my pewer,&for the honour of my 4/1ajefly ?While the word is in his mouth there falls a voice from heaven, The ICingdom ù departed from thee,& he is turned to grafs with the Oxen, Dan.4.3 0,3 3. And his Son Bel fhaz.tiar.r great Feafl fills up the meafure, for which he was that night (lain and his. Kingdom taken, Dan.5.I,3o,3 i. If the rich man will think thus, and fo.
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