146 Eafe, 2yietnefs andworldly Peace to be denied. ward real worth. Grace is not fet out and honoured by fine clothes but clouded, wronged and difhonoured by excefs, It is the inward glory that is the real glory. The Image ofGod mutt needs be the chiefeft beauty of man : Let that thine forth in the holinefs ofyour lives, and you will be honourable in- deed. Peter tellethyou offuch a converfation of women as may win their unbelieving husbands without the word : And what is it? [while they beholdyour chaff converfation,coupled with fear : ,vhofe adorning, let it not be that outward adoning,ofplaiting the hair, and ofwearing of gold, or ofputting on of apparel : but the hiddenmanof the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament ofa meek andquietfpirit which t in thefight of God-of great price, For after this manner's:: old time, the holy women that trolled in Godadorned thernrelves,being in fisbjetlion to their buf- bands, 1 Pet. 3. I, 2,3, 4,5. CH AP XXVII. Eafe, Ratietnefs,andWorldly Peace to be denied. Io. A Nother part. of Carnal felf-intereft tobe denied, is Eafe, and 25letnefs, and worldly Peace which the flothful and felf-feekers preferr before the pleating of God. Both thecafe ofthe mind and of the body are here compre- hended ; and flothfulnefs in Gods neareft fervice, and alfo in the worksof our callings to be reprehended. The fame flefhly Power that draweth one man to whore- dom, and drunkennefs, and covetoufnefs, doth draw another to floth and idlenefs. It is but feveral ways of Pleafing the fame flefh andobeying the fame fenfuality. And becaufe that Idlenefs and Sloth is fo great and common a fin, and yet made fo light of by the moll, I fhall briefly tell you the rnif- chiefs of it, and the_Reafons that should make you hate it. I. Slothfulnefs doth contradid the very end of our creation and rilervation, and the frame of our nature and fo provoketh God to cut us offand and raft us asufelefs into the fire. Who dare
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