20 a The Cr«cifying of the world, fenfual men , walk in a vainAgro. By feparating thecreature' fromGod, they make it nothing- : and then they ftudy it and difpute of it and leek, and run, and labour for it, when they have in a fort annihilated it. I !peak flit! of their Objective fe- paration in effe cognito & volito : foí a real feparation is impof- fible but as a real annihilation may be fo called. When they have feparated the charafters of the great Book of Nature fromGodwho is their retire, and made nothing of it, as tothe form c f a Bookalthen do they fall a playing with it , who cou'd not endure to karn on it. But when their Mailer comes to take an account of their Learning, the play will beat an end, and the forrow begins : and then theymuff remember and feel that their Book was given them to another are. And this feerns to be the fenfeof that other Texr, Tfa/.73 .20. As a dreamWhen one awaketh , fo a Lard When those aWkefi, ( or in awaking ) there fhalt defpife their image.] Though our Tranflators apply it to Cods awaking, that is, toi udgement, yet many learned interpreters rather apply the word awaking] to the finners awaking at Judgement out of the forefaid dream of a fenfual life. They do but labour, and care, andga- ther as in a dream : They fight,and conquer,and poifefs, but as in a dream. They dream that they are rich, and honourable , and happy, and howproudly do they carry it out in this dream ? One dreameth that he is a great man and he is lifted up : another dreameth that he is poorand undone, and he is troubled But --when °God awaketh the dreaming world , he will (hew them the vanity and defpicablenefs of this image or Ihew that here they Walked in They ihall fee that as in a game at Chefs , though one was imaginarily a King, and another a Queen ; yet it was but imaginary and when the tedious game is ended , they have laboured hard to do nothing, and areall alike ; fo will it be with them. The meaning is not only that God himfelf will defpife this theirAar', or imaginary employmentsand enjoyments : but that he will make them appear defpicable to themfelves and all the world. Truly Brethren, all that we have to dowith the world in a feparated fenfe , as without God, is fuch a game, a dream, a ¡hew. WhenSchollars are thus iludying their Phyficks or Ma- , thematicks, or any thingof the creature, as feparated fromGod, yea,
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