Serin. 2I. How may we get rid of Spiritual) Sloth ? they glorified him not suGod.W hat follows upon this floth in not glorify- ing vod as he ought to be glorified, v. 2 3. They changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image like to corruptible mangto birds,d -foxr- footed beafit, and creeping things. sloth is the high-way to Superflition, * Dorotheus in and idlenefsthe road -way to Idolatry, 1 Cor. r o.7 nrither be you idola- Synop adeo tern, as were force of them,as it is written, the people fate down to eat, aud feÿvo Mamex drink, and rote up to play: by v, ch is implied; heir idlen, fs was the caufe na trarfire in of their idolatry.When Dem.0 grew lazy and ílothful in his Mirif-try, facerdotem be turned Prief in an Idols Temple, where he had lefs work and more dtaboli, Dr wages, 2. Tim.4.I O. confider idolatry and luperflition are God- provo- TaArraoxiSacsfrrirh, king, Land- deflroytng, Soul - damning fins ; no wonder john fhcnld ggravirnum . conclude his Epifile with keep your fcIves from Idols, 1 John 5.21. peccatum.Aqui. III. Confider Low imp.,fuible it is, that creepáng Snaiïs in Gods way 21 2x quiff. fhould ever get to their journys end; fair and foftly goes far,but never 94. ail. 3. fo far as Heaven, A at.i 1.I2.TheKingdom o heaven v ereth violence Principa è cri- * Gi s°rP, a metaphor taken from form- men, - - the violent take it by force, P mus hujus fa- ing Cities and Caitles, they form Heaven, hang their Petarhs of Pray- cult reatus. ers on heaven gates and blow ti:em open, that get Heaven by a con- Test. quart; forming is not work either for the fearful or the flothfui, i Cor.'tnnts qui ad 9.24. So run that you may obtain; not creep, but run, not run, but fo dire d fderar, run, not indifferently, but indufrioufly, as the racers in the Itmian °portertranfsre Games (to which the Apofle here alludes) who did firetch and (rein per ignem de their legs and limbs that they might gain the prize, Luke 13,24.f/rive a;uam. Aug. to enter in at the flrait gate : Heaven bath a very frail gate, we mull fermadGipp. crowd yea crulh our feIves if ever we get in,damPj ems, play the Chain- o n dorm P ÿ Non dormrenti- pions to a very agony, for many 1 fay unto you will feek to enter in, and bus provenit Jhall not be able, nzrfuorv, fhall feek with indufry and indeavour. regnum cafe- rum, nee olio de defidia torpentibus beatitudo aternitatis ingeritur. Profp. de vit. contempl. kui Radium currit, eniti deber, & conteodere quam maxime pojJit ut vincat. Tul 3. off. petent cum ardore. I V. Confider how equitable it is that you Ihould be as a &ive in the way of God, as you were once in the way of tin and Sathan , Rom, 6. lionanum 19. I fpeakafter the manner of men, i. e. I fpeak Reafon as well as Reh- quiddam dico. ion as you have yielded.your members fervants unto uncleannefs and to Era g y y . f f sitar non qut- iniquity, unto iniquity. As, not of quality but equality,even fo now yield litatis fed your members fervasets to righteouf nefs, unto holinefs ; even fo : in the aqualirark. fame manner and the fame rneafure : this very confideration wrought Çvpr?an was effe&ually upon Paul bimfelf, who as he had formerly finned more °' "4'o4 than all fo afterwards he laboured more than all-the time he could not cHaó w>,r a. > > euhCHa. Naz. recover by recalling, he does tecover by redeeming. Whara peircing,'rat. le; and 103
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