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Ephefraxs,
Chap5.
V
E
R.
6,
Doti.
vfe.
Dot`s.
worke.
So for covetoufheffe; may we not make our
beft r mull
wee
not provide
for thofe of our family
e
God loveth diligence,
we
muff
not
tempt him.
All which things doe tend to fow pillowes
under
our
elbowes
and
to
hood
-winke us,
that
we may neither
fee finne nor
judgement.
Hooded
hawkes are quiet
:
bur know
this, that God
he denounceth
the
loffeof
heaven,
that thou
mayft be kept from ir, the
devill covereth
it, that thou mayft
fall
into it
:
like
as
cunning
hunters
hide their nets
that the game
may the cafilierbe enfnared.
The a.
thing
is,
that
all
tbefe
things
are
vaine
words.
Observe,
That
filch things
asdoe
caft
coveringover finne,
acs
doe
hide
judgement
belong-
ing
to
it,
are
vaine; they are fpiders webs,
fandie
foundations,
figge-
leaves, untempered
mortar, they
will mocke
all
thofe that
liften
to
them.
Wherefore
take heede
of
them,
and
love
that word that
brings
you
to
the fight
of
finne,
that
brings you to
feare
judgement;
these are
found
wholefome words, though
they fmarr, yet they
are medfci-
nable.
For
becaufe
of
theft things
commeth
the
wrath of
God,
&c.]
Now
hee
commeth
to reiteratethe denunciationwith increafe:wherein
you have
z.
The
ûnnescaufing.
2.
The Wrath
caufed.
3.
The
Perfons.
z.
Then
we mutt marke, that
thefe
finnes
doe
not
only
excliadeus
oat
of
heaven,
but procure all
Gods
wrath
temporali
and
eternal!:
thus
unclea-
neffe in
this
life,how
hath God
revealed
wrath from heaven
againtt
it
in
the old
vvorld, in
sodomer
what
fhame,
poverty,
fickneffe
doth
he
purfue
it
with
in
many
that
live
in
it?
and
they
(ball
bone
in the
lake.
So
worldlineffe
God doth
pronounce often
a
woe
on ir,
and
doth
disbur-
den wrath manywaycs
upon
it.
It
may be considered,
2.
wayes:
ei-
ther
while
it
is
poffefied
:
or when
it
is
taken away, whether they bee
taken from
it,or
it from
them,yet
furviving to
behold the
vengeance.
Now
while
it
is
poffeffed,
God doth
fhew his
wrath
either
in
per-
mitting adelighrfull
ufe,
or denying the
ufe,
or
giving
leave
to
ufe
it,
but
taking away the
pleafure
of
it
:for
fome covetous rich
men
there
are that
live like
Dives, that
feede
their hearts
as in a
day
of
{laughter,
but the
curfc
of
God
and his
woe
is
in
the
midst
of
it;
for Gods curie
doth
kill
in as
great diverfitie
as
poyfons,
which
doe not
all kill
.
with painefull
convulfions and
gripings,
but force
by
casting
into
a
fweete fleepe, force
by
fo affecting
the fpleene, that
a
man will
laugh till he
fall
downe dead.
We
count not the
frate
of
fat ware hap-
py,
becaufe we know it
prepareth for the (laughter. Sometime God
doth not
let
a
man ufe
that
he
hath, but giveth
himup
to
fuch anevill
eye, that he cannot
endure
to touch
any
thing,
Eccles
q.
8.
Sometime
heletteth
men take a
portion, but with
fuch cares
as
take
away the
de-
light with
flings
ofconlcience,
as Saul;
with inordinate
defire
offome
things
they
would have,
as
Ah,ed,
who
for want
of
Nabobs
vineyard
grew