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Yfe
r.
Error
of
our
Epicures.
V.
%.
Love
life,
and
doc good.
Totn(tdeliam
via
peccarum.
VP.
I'arñµavín.
Doll.
phefians,Chap.z,
V
E
R.
I,
fpeech.
Look
as
holincf
e
is
the
beginning
of
life
everlafting, which
go-
eth
on till it end
in
glory
;
fo
is
fin
the death
of
the
foule,
which doth, if
thegrace
of
Chrift
heal
it
not,
never flaytill it
come
to
everlafting
dam-
nation.
As
for finfull
adtions,they
are
nothing
but
the
flinch which
coin
-
meth from the
dead
corpfe,
I
meane
the body
of
finne
dwelling
within
us.
For
even
as
noyfome
favours
come from
a
putrified
body
:
fo
doe
thefe motions from
a
corrupted foule.
What
then may
we
think
of
the gallant courfe
of
many that
live
re-
velling, carding, dicing, dancing, feafling,
that
walk with fwoln
hearts,
contemning others
5'
So many men
are
dead while
they
live in
anger,
intemperancy, covet
oufneffe
,felf.love,uncleanneffe,vanity, &c.
O
they
think
it
is
the
onely
life,
and
that
there
is
no
other,
becaufe God
gave
them
never
to
fee
other
:
Man without mirth,
is
like a
body
without
a
foule
:
Put them from their gamings,from their
cups,theirfmoak,their
whorifh looks and courtings, &c. and you
kill
them.
This
Ihould teach
use()
confider
of
fin, and
oureftate through
it,
that
we who
have not
thought
of
it, may yet
fet
our hearts
to the
way
oflife,
that
wemay be
thankfull who have efcaped from it,
that
we may
take
heed
ofir,
and labour
to
be healed more and
more
of
it. Should
fome
learned
Phyfitians
tell
you fuch
or
fuch
a
deadly
difeafe
were
growing
on your
body,
how would you thank him, and
make
ufe
of
it!
Oh,
it
is
well with thee,
ifGod
make
thee wife, that thou heareft
this
day,
how
thou art
dead in fpirit.
We
are
clad when we
efcape
Tome
great
bodily
ficknefí'e
;
and
ifthere
dwell
reliques
of
lick
matter with
us, we
keep
rules
de
fanitate
tuenda :
How
much more
fhould
we be
wife
foreur
faults
?
Further, that
he faith,
they were
dead in trefßaffes, it
doth
teach
us,
what
is
the
life
ofa
naturaliman,
even
a
death
in
trefpaffe,
a
whole
life
offin
:
Like
tree,
like
fruit
;
The very
confciences
of
them are
related,
Tit.
r.
t 5.
For,
without
faith it
is
impofi'ibleto
pleafe God, Heb.
5
5.6,
True
it
is,that outwardly
they
doe many things
that
are
laudable,but
fill
they
walk
in
the
flefh,
the
Devil! hath conjured them
fo
into
that
Circle,
that
they cannot
flirre
forth
of
it.
Look
as in
the
flefh
of
a
beaft there
is
fome
part
of
great ufe,
bought
up at
a
great price,other
fome
that
is
call
away,
yet
all
is
flelh
:
So
in
the
life
of
the naturali man,fome works
are
ofgood
ufe,
and
in
commendation with man, fome are abominable, but
all
are
of
the
flelh: So
the
verruous
allions
of
natural! men have
that
appea-
rance
ofgood,
but want
the
foule and life
of
it
in
which
itconfiteth.
It teachethus not to
refl
in
this,that
we
are
neither theefe norwhore;
for be
our
life
never
fo civili, it
is a
death
in fin
till
grace
quicken.
There
is a double
madaeffe,
as
Hippocrates
obferveth, the
one very light
and
toying, the other morefober
and
folemne,
in
which
men fit
frill muting
deeply upon
Tome
fancies
:
fuch
a
difference we have
in fpiritual! phren-
fies
;
fome are very
lober
over other,as we
fee
the
lives
of
fome
naturali
mengravely
ordered,
and morall
y,
in
comparifon
ofothers,but
yet
all
is
deluded phrenfie before
God.
Secondly,
hence
mark thatour
courfe in
alluall
fin
doth
fink
us dee-
per
and deeper
in
death
; Yauwben
you
were dead
in
treff
offer
;
intimating
thus