0 406 The Life ef Faith, overvalue their own underilandings ? and how wife they are in their own conceits ? and how hardly they will think ill of their,mo(i falfe or foolish apprehenfions ? and how proud- ly they difdain the judgments of wirer tnen;from whom if they had humility, they might learn perhaps twenty years toge- ther, and yet not reach the meafure of their'knowledge ? and what a íirange difference there is in their judging of any cafe, when it is anothers, and when it is their own ? And among how few is the fin of flefh- pleafing fenjuality mortified ? abundance take no notice of it, becaufe it is hid, and can be daily exercifed in a lets difgraceful way. If they h, they can enj y that which is their own; and they can cleanlily do as Dives did, Luke i6. and take their good things here. . Having enough laid up for many years, they think they may take their ea(, and cat, drink, and be merry, without rebuke, Luke 12. 19, 1o. They that arc the moll zea- lous in (hidopinions, and modes of Worthip, can live as So- domdid, in pride, fulnefs of bread, and abundance of idlenefs, andufe meat for their tuffs, and make provifion for the fiefh, to fa. rafie thoje tuffs, and yet never frem to themfelves, nor thole about them to offend ; much lets to do any thing that is grof. ly evil, Ez-k 16.49. Pfal.78. 18, 3o. Kom. 13. 13,14. They drink not till they are drunk ; they cat not more in quantity than others ;ï,they labour as far asneed compels them; and this they think is very tollcrable. And becau(è the Papitis have turned the j all fubduing of the flesh, into hurtful aufteritics, er formal mockeries, therefore they arc the more hardened in ,their flesh-pleafng way. They takebut that which they love, and that which is their own, and then they think that the fault is not great :and what Chrititneant by Dives hisbeing clontbed in purple and !ilk, and faring jumptuoufly every day, they never truly underfood Nor yet what he meaneth by the poor los kirit, Matth. g. 3. which is not (at leafs only or chiefly) a tènfc of the want ofgrace, but a fpirit tinted to a life of po- verty, contrary to the love ofmoney, and ofWads, and lux- ury, and pride : Whenwe are content with necefforier, and eat end drink for health more than for pleafure, or for that plcafure only which doth conduce to health : and when we will be at no needlesfuperfluotu colt upon the icfb,batchufe the
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=