Iforth that
maketh
us fee
our unworthineffe.
z.
We
muff
labour
tofeele
the love
of God,
and
fee
the hand
of
our heavenlyFather
in all
things; forthis
is
it
the
foule
feedeth
on,by
this
it
is
quickened.
Now
we-are like little
children that have twenty
things provided for them by the provident
Parent,but they
take
them,
and
through
weakneffe
of
underffanding
are
not able to
confider
the
care
of
the Parent
in
them.
3.
We
mutt get
fome fenfe
of the comfort
and neceffuy
of
our
dai-
ly
benefits,
both
f
pirituall and
corporall,which
are continued.
4.
We
mutt not
too
much
lookeat the
things we
lack;
for we
are
like
children, who
if
theywant fome
one
trifle,
care not
for twenty
other good things which might
give
them
content.
VERSE
5.
For
this
yee know
, that
no
whoremonger
,
nor uncleane
VERS
5.
perfon,
nor covetous
man,
who
is
an
idolater, bath
any
inheritance in the
kingdome
of
Chrifl, and
of
God.
Now
he
commethto
the reafon,
which
fiat
is fimply
propounded:
Secondly, by prevention,
he Both repeat
it
with
a
farther affeveration,
as
if
he fhould fay
;
<,
You
mug
refraine all uncleanneffe and
cove-
"
toufneffe, the
lighter
occafion
of
them,
for uncleane
ones
(as
you
,,
know)
and covetous ones efpecially,
who
are
Idolaters, doe forfeit
« their
elate
in
Gods Kingdome.
I
know
the Devill and his
inßru-
<,
ments will
prompt
many
things,
as
if this were
too
forwardly
fpo-
<,
ken,
but I
warne you
not to be deceived, for
tl?cfe
things do not on-
<<
ly deprive
us
of
bleffedneffe,
but bring downe Gods wrath tempo-
"
tall
and eternal! upon
us.
In
this
verfethen three things
muff
be marked.
r.
That
the knowledge
of
the hurt
fin
bringeth,is
a fufficient means
todiffwade from
fin.
a. What
a
filthy
fin
covetoufneffe
is, from
hence,
that it
is
called
Idolatry.
3.
That thefe things defeat
us
of
our everlafting glorious inheri-
tance
in
the
Heavens.
For the
firft,
the Scripturedoth teach
us, That
nothing will
coole
the Dödi;
beate
of
a
fanfullluft
fooner
then
to confider
the iffue
of
it
:
to the
fame
end
therefore
in r
Cor.6.9.
he
preferreth the fame confideration ;
Knowye
not
that
the unrighteous Jhall not
inherit
the Kingdoms
of
God
?
There-
fore
as
God bath tilled
us
on
to
obedience
by promifes,
fo
from the
beginning he bath
hedged
his
Commandements
in
with threatnings,
that we might
not breake out
to the tranfgreffion
of
them. Eccl.r
1.9.
If
Know
that
for
all this thou
(halt
come to
judgement.
And
this was Eves
6rß
halting mentioned on which the
devil! did
worke,that
fhe
did
not
6rmely perfwade her
felfe
of
the death that
would
enfue
upon her
trcf
gaffe,
for
fhe
faith,
left
;
teaching
us,
that to
make
the judgement
threatned matter
of
peradventure,
it
the
next
Rep
to
tranfgreffe
the
Commandement.
We
fee
that
if
we have
a
true knowledge
of
harms;
there followeth
a
declining
of
them
;
as
wee know
Snakes will fling
deadly,
therefore
if
wee be upon them at unawares
wee
leape
back.
_Know-
E
R.
5.
áphefanf,C
hap.
5.
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