Baxter - Houston-Packer Collection BV4526 .B35 1675

34 ZO C m? fflatto 'Book. it not be that ftrfl and moil which is moll worth And have you found out any thing that is more worthy of your love and labour than Heaven, or the ever- lafting fruition of God in Glory ? I pray youSir, what doyou fet your heart upon your felf ?.What do you Peek withyour greaten diligence ? Dare you fay, It is any thingbetter than God ? It one come to you at death, will you fay then that it is better ? I befeech you think whether I may not much wifelier fay to you, and to all that are of your mind, [Why make you fuch a (e) ftirr for nothing ? Is a few nights lodgings in a wicked world in the way to the grave and hell, worth all this a do?II than you can fay to others [ 1'7hat need all this ado for yo?or Salvation ? ] Do you know ever a one of us whom you account tooReligious, that inhis love and fervice of God, doth feem much to exceed the (f) ungodly in their love and fervice of the flefh? How early rife your poor labouring Tenants ? How much toil and patience have your Servants to pleateyou ? and the Husbandman for a poor living? and almoft all men for provifion for the body, till it be calf into a grave ? Is not all this too much a do? And is our poor 4ull labour too much for Heaven ? They think of the world as foon as they awake ; They (peak of it the firtl words they fay : they holdon Thinking and talking and /abo: ring till they go to bed again : In Company and alone, they forget it not: And thus they do from year to year. And yet men fay, that this is good Haf- bandry, and who'bhmeth them for it, and as:ceth them Whether their maintenance be worth all this ado ? Yea God faith, Six days Bait thon labour. What if we (e) I. Z,BG'h.3.7o(f) Lcy íl,o!tldi

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