.A.S•inJ or A BrNtt: - Part II. ·nn ~ork t If you would judge of a mans Defig,s ,fure-{ee his AttPZ~nments. If you c~n tell w·hat ~nd it is that they come to~ you_may know how to JUdge of thetr intentims and their co 11 r[e. Thctr corpfes you know, hue no grfater a Happinefs (after a few fc>Olifb merry hours) then to lie in toe earth as fil~h or dtJfi. You can fee no H~nourattained there. It is a child indeed that thinks a guilded MonHmemov~r a rot~en carkafe, is any great maeter of Honour or Bmefit to tr. And tf you look after the foul . (by the profped:ive of the Word of God) alas, it goeth to fa: greater difuonour. And is this it that worldlings make fuch a fiir for? 3· The wer~a~fo thatthey areempleytd in, is like theDefign., ~Sin, which is the .Bafeft thing in the world, is their employment. The work of aScullion, or the bafefr honefr trade you can ima– gine, is a tboufand times lefs di!honourable, then jiflf : Yet flat– tered Gallants beliewe not this, when they can pleafe their fldh without lofing the reputation of worthy Gentlemen ! Nor will our common ungodly people be perfwaded of it, that are more ,afuamed to be found praying then finning, and to be called- a Puritan~ then aGooa-jellowor a Swertrer : and that think they are as good men as others, when up eo the ears in the dn.1dgery of the Devil : Ai if the filth of fin were no difhonour eo them, which nothing but the Spirit and blood of ChriO: is able to wafh onr. Thefe arc the men that Paul mentioneth with weeping; Phi!. 3. 18. that mi~dearthlythin[J, wh1[eGod iuheir hDy, and -who glory in thei-r foame. 4. Moreover , it is a B4e aifpofitien that ungodly men are po!felfed with. Though their Naturu are dltntially noble as bein~ the work of God, and capable of moil glorious tkings ; yet have they made them DifPo{itively Vile : They are flefhly– minded , earthly-minded , ignortint of Heannly things, not favouring the things of the Spirit, but like the Serpent, crawling on earth, and feeding on the dufl:. Grafs is fweeter to a horfe then junkets -; and a little money or vain-glory is fweeter ~o a flefhly mind then God and Glory, and all the treafures of Samts and Angels. A fwine never thinks of God or Heaven, hidE of his draffe and fiie : Eafe , and good ehear, and money, and th~ flattery of men , are the God and the Heaven of fenfual men. And arc not thefe men of Bafe difhonourable fpirits ? Un– worthy men ! might you hav_c an Everlafiing life, and will yot,l pre~
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