1.1111=11111101111.1"111=1111-- comfortable rihilkip.g with. God. 39 Li able Pearles, as it is nowwith piles of Graife. . Nature, faith a meere Moraliff, feemeth in the fir birth of Gold, and wombe fromwhence it proceedeth, aftc a fort to have prefaged the mifery of thofe that are in low:, with it. For it bath fo orderedthe matter,that in thofeCowl- tries where it groweth, there growes with it neither Gra*, nor Plant, nor any thing, that is worth any thing: as giving us tounderhand thereby, that in thole rnindeswhere thede- fire of thismetal! growes, there cannot remaine fo muchas a fparke of true honour and vertue. 6. God is not onelya Father, but alfo All-fufficient : why Zgatt fhouldefl thou then farewant, that fear& him ? Hee pro-, vides every day for millions ofyowles : Will he thenbee wanting to a Man, to a Chriflian,to His owneChild ? Chrift himfelfe preffing reafons to this purpofe, tels us, that our heavenly Father cloathes theLilly above Salomon Royalty, match.a.as. &c, and feedes the Fowles of the ayre, which neither fow, nor rope, nor gather intobarites ; What Pa curled vile then of bale diftruft darkens thine hard-heart, that thou fhotildeft either carke, or deale unconfcionably ? 7. One twohoures fire will difperfe, and confine the hoard of an hundred yceres heaping together. And where art thou then ? Thine heart then is feized upon at once, with unutterable anguifh,and the very horror of Hell, for the toile of thine Heaven upon Earth; and with cryes of blood, and furies of confcience, for thy covetous, cruell,viatiotAs)initl- rious courfes for many yeeres. Thus maniaWorldling fpins a faire thread to flrangle himfelfe both temporally and eter- nally. 8. The Sunne isa very glorious and contented creature and yet it harbours nogolden Mine in its faire and refulgent Body. The bleffed Angels are full of all felicities,. and yet they have no flyer: they wantno happineffe, and =yet they want gold. Heaven, thecbie f e and Royal!. Seate of Bided- neffe, is emptyof thefe treafures, there:groWno Minerals; the Vcite of flyer and gold, is not to-be' found there. The Bonneof Godhinfelfe infinitely themolt happy Creattkrelt V fpeake
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