rart 11: A stti1118r "A Brule: 247 then Hell, when they can live no longer) do indeed drive on no greater trade, thenproviding fo1' the ft e.lh, and feathering them a nefi whichwill quickly be pu!led down _: and like the fpider~, (pinning themfelves a web, wh1ch death Wl·ll £honly fweep away•. Bm the DeGgn and daily bufinefs of the Godly is·for everiafiing· , Glory. Htb. n. 10. They l~olzf~ra City that hath j<'Hndation.r,, whQf~ /;uilder· and mak!r is God.] ver( I 3, I·4 ; I 5, I 6-. They ' C.6nfe(s them/elves ftrangers 11nd pilgrims en earth~ therc{9y decla-· 11ing th.1t they ·fee/z a {euntrey. e.And truly-if tht] were mind-– ful of that· (deceitful world) -which theycame out:ef (and have– forfaken) tht]· may have opportunities (and too many invi-– tations)' to rtturn to it : But noW they. defire· a /;ttter CouHtrey; • thAt is , an Heavenly : Wherefore God i.r ·not afoamed.to be catltd' Their Ged ·: for he hath prept~tred fo·r them aCity] . This Noble ' E ndennobleth both the perfons aud . conve.rfarions of. belfevers. To ~ule a Kingdom is a·Nobler deGgn then to ·play with children · for pins or points. But tofeek the EverlaHing Kingdom is far· above all the highefi de!igns that are terminated upon earth. If Everlafiing Glory with God.in Heaven. be a nobler !late-then a worldly life, then rnuft the feeking it he anobler defign~ Pau{ 1hewerhyou. rhe ·difference very pathecic~Ily, Phi!. 3'. 1 8, 19, 20• . [For m~tny walk.._ (of whrnn 1told you often, andnow tell yon weep• ing) that they are theenemies of theCrof.r of {hYift ; Who{e end– u deftruetion, .whofeGodutheirbelty,and 'Wb(Jfe glory ·u in ·tbeir.· /h.tme,wh~J mind-earthlythint;J: JJ·urourC9nVerfiition il in Hta· 'l:Jtn J· thatis; we Jive as Citizens ·Of the heavenly Jerufalem, .an4 ' not as thofe chat are here at home. le is ·Heaven ·chat' fancti.fi~d , perfom mind'; thanheyfl:udy.and carefor, and labour and live · f~r,in the world. And therefore, t~ough_in their N~tu.;.ai_ captt.. c-1tJ, they are but as other men, yct·mchetr Moral .and Relative · apacity, Ithink .I may fay with?ut. Hyperbole~ . that they are ~ , much more advanced above the dl'gntty.of the great ·unfanttified . Princes upon earth, then Reafon, and _learnin~1 and manly ~c;.; · fignsadvancea man above a beafi• . It 1s rhc Nob.Jene{s :and ·, !rt~[e• ncfsofthe end 'that d0th h~nour or ~eliafo the agent :'- and there-·· fore .~one are truly Honou.11able but thofe. th:a't feek the fpiritual, . the h1gh; eternal H011our. · 5. The Emplo7ment as· well as th'~ De:fiim of the Godly; . do prove them to be the mofi Homur11.ble. ..Motlt the End and : M1ltter: d.o ~ fu~\Y ~he . c~c~llency, of their W~tk.• . As . the, Efld ~ .. .. -- }lonour~'~ l
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