:6"i ':AsAlni"brliJJrutt~ Part II~ choofe: and the part that is chofen by the reil: of the world .. And are you not yet refolved which is Beil: ? and which t~ choofe? · TWo forts IlQok tomeet with here, to whom I fhall apply • my fclf difiindly, before I come to the comparative work Firfi foU1e . will tell me that aB thefe are needlefs words ; and thu there is no man /o fenfelefs M to thin~( that Temporal things are better then Etern11t, ~r the world thenGoa, or fin then. Holinefs. An(w. 0 that this were true! how happy then were all the world? I grant that many are{uperficially convinced, that are not converted; and that many have a fltght opinion that Heaven and Holinefs is befl:, that yec have no Love to it , and will not feek ic above All. Blilt their praClicP~l judgement doth not go along wi ~ h their OpinionJ. Thy reli./h the world ·as fweeteft unto them. In the prevailing aeepej} thoughtJ of their hellrts' they fet moft by the pleafures of this world ; Why elfe is their Heart mo!l: cowards them ? Why clfe do they choofe them, and reft~Je to Livea Holy life ? Why have they no delight in God? and why have we fo much ado with them, to bring them ro :a heavenly mind and life, and all in vain ?What ! will not men be perfwadcd to choofe that which they k.._,ww is be.ft for them ? _ _ Object. Temptations nre ftrong, and men are weak._, and [o men go againft their l(nn:vledge. · · An(~'· I. Wbat do Temptations prevail with yo.u to do ? Is it not to thi14k._well of finful pleafures, and to think more hardly of · the wayes of God ? ls it not eo lik.f a worldly flefbly hfe better then a Holy life ? If not, how can you follow tbofe temptati- -ons · ? And if it be fo, then they draw you for that ti~e to think. that fl efhly pleafl:lres are thebetter rart. . . 2 . But if indeed it be as you fay, you are the mofi unexcufe– abie mifcrean tsin the world. What ! do you k..mw that God is he ft f or y ott, and yet w~ll you fly from hi~ ? Do you k..~ow that hea,·en is the onlY. happmefs , and yet wdl you fee~ thts world before it ? Do you ftnow what is Bef.t for you, and wtll not have ' it ? and what is worfi, and yet will keep it? Will you go to hell, and k!Jow whi ther you are going? And. will you ran from bea- _ y._en and damn your fel ves, and k..,now th~t YQl:J do fo ?. Yea_, a 1 nd .t a t
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