By the croft ofChri... 211 Benefit 5. t i( Oreover this Mortification ,, Will helpyou is IVA prevent a great deal of/harp Repentance, which mull tellunmortiiedworldlingsof theirfolly. When theyhave run themfelvesout of breath,and abufed Chrifl, and neglected grace, and either loft orhazarded their fouls, they mull: fit down in the end and befool themfelves for lofing their time and lives for no- thing. When God bath given a manbut a fhort life, and laid his everlafting life upon it , and put fuch works into his hand as call for his utmoft wifdom and diligence : What a fad perplexing thought mutt it be, to confider that all or molt of this time bath been call away upon worldly vanities ? If a man (hall run away from his own Father, and ferve a Matter that at last will turnhim off with nothingbut íhame andblows will he not with that he had never feen his face ? Such aMatter all worldlings and fenfu alifts do ferve : Andhe that got molt by the world among them, ¡hall with at Taft that he had neverfervedit : When the mortifi- ed Chriftian that flighted the world , and laid out his careand labour for a better, may fo far efcape the bitternefs of fuchRe- pentings, andbe glad that he bath chofen the better part. That is not the belt meat that is fweeteft in the eating, when afterward it mull be vomited upwith pain becaufe it cannot be digefted. The (parer dyer of Mortifiedmen, will prevent fuch after pains and troubles. Ee 2 ,Benefit
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