By theCrefs of Chrïff. . 247 rooms, and walks , and lands, and neighbourhood ? Glory not in them as anyof your felicity. They are baits to tice your hearts fromGod. But rather rejoyce that you have a buildingnot madewith hands eternal! in the heavens, and that . you can becontented till you come thither with any thing in the way , and make fhift with inconveniences for a little while. Heaven wants no furniture , nor hath any encum- brances, nor inconveniences. If a winding fheet and Coffin be room enoughwhen we are dead, we can endure lure to be fomewhat firaitened while wearealive , feeing weare dead to the world while we live in it. O what is the molt fumptuous Palace, to the meaneft room in our Fathers houfe. The green and flourithing earth inSummer, covered with the more glo- rious fpangled Firmament , is a goodly ftru&ure ; but far fhort of that which the pooreft Saint fhall have with God. 4. Have you comelynefs of body ? have you beauty or ftrength ? Glory not in it. It is but warm well - coloured earth. The pox orother ficknefs can quickly turn your beau- ty to deformity. If age donot wrinkle it , death will dif olve it. The comelyeft and ftrongeftbody,will (hortly beas home- ly and loathfoma thing , as thedirt in the fireets and as the carryon in.aditch. The f outeft youth, and the neateft dames mutt come to this ; there's noremedy. And is fucha body a thing to be Gloried in : No, but glory rather in youraffu- ranceof a Refurre&ion : when your mortali bodies (hall put on immortality , and your corruptible , incorruption , and and death fhai1be .(wallowed up in victory ; and when you ¡hall thineas Stars in the Firmamentof your Father and be fubje& to heat and cold; hunger, and thirft, and wearinefs no more : And that in themean time youcan tame this flefh, and fife it as a fervant and inttead of caring for its inordinate provifion can lay out your care for a more during fub- fiance. 5. Have you comely apparel for the adorning of your bodies ? Glory not in it. This is fo childifh that its below a man , and therefore fo finfull as tobe unbefeeming a Chrifti. an. Theemptyeft perfon may have thebelt attire..: It is not your r
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