The Life ofFaith. 265 For the hypocrites cafe is alwaies Come ofthefè : r. Some of them will only traft God in Comefmaller matter, wherein their happinefs conffteth not : As a man will truJt one with fume trifle which he doth not much regard, whom yet he thinks fo ill of,that hecannot truft him in a matter of weight. 2. Some of them will gruff Godfor the laving of their fouls, and the life to come (or rather prefume on him, while they salt it truffinghim) but they will not truft him with their bodies, their wealth, and honours, and flefhly pleafures, or their lives. Thefe they are refolved to fhift for, and fecure themfclvcs, as well as theycan. For they know that for the world to come, theymuff be at Gods difpolat, and they have no way of their own to fhift out of his hands : whether there be fuch a life or no, they know not ; but if there be, they will ceft their fouls upon Gods mercy, when theyhave kept the world as long as they can,and have had all that it cando for them.But they will not lofe their prefent part, for fuch uncertain hopes as they ac- count them. 3. Some ofthem will truft him only in pretence and nom; while it is the creature which they truft indeed. Becaufe they have learned to fay, that God is the difpofer ofall, and only to be trotted, and all creatures are but ufed by his wilt; therefore they think that when they truft the creature, it is but in fubordi;nation to God though indeed they truft not God at all, 4. Some of them will truft God and the creature jóyntly; and as they ferve God and Mammon, and think to make fore' of the profperityof the body, and the falvation of the foul; without toting either of them ; fo they truft in both conjune- ly, to make up their felicity. Some think when they read' Chrifts words, Mari, to. 24. Howbard is it for them that trt,ft inRiches, to enter into the Kingdom ofGod ?'] that they ye fate enough ifthat be all the danger ; for they do not truft in their riches, though they love them : He is amad man they fay,that will put bac truft in them. Andyet Chrift intimateth it as the true reafon why few that bave riches can be laved, becaufe there is few that bave riches, who donot truff in them : You know that riches will not five your fouls; you know that they will not faun you from the gr,v: , you know that L t they
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