. In.ftrutlions for aright comforting a ·worldly ~ommodity, offi~eJ honour, fi.)me earthly pelfe, and tranfitory N orhmg. Some of thck after Profeffion for fome time, fall quite away from it and turne Epicures, or worldlings, if not·Scorner~ and Perfecti:tors : -Others hold-on in a plodding cou&of ··rorrnall Chri111anity all their life long; and at laft,de- ( part this life like thefoolijh Virgins,and in that formal! manner I told you ofbefore.Neither be thon dif-heart'- ned with this counfell of leaving all for Chrift. For thou lbalt be no lofer, bat a great gainer thereby. Befides,. eternalllife in the world to come ; Thou fhalt receive an hundred-foldnow in thu time, as Chri.ft Himfelfe tellsthee,Mar.Io.. ~o. If thou part with werldly joyes, thou .!halt have quiet in the Hof.J qho.ft,fpJri· · tnall joy,unfpeakeable and glorious-,neerer fami~iarity with God,deerer communion with lefm Chrif!, &!-. To which- the pleafures of tenne thoufand vyorids, were they all extant,were but extremell: paine. If thou lofe thineHusband; He that made thee, will be in his · Ifai.S' 4· -;. fiead unto thee; ThJ u'lfak£r u thine Hmband,the Lord of Flofls .is his Name. If thou -Iofe thy Father; The Plillm 103· f3· All-fufficient Iefiovah, blefled for ever, will pitt.J thee,· . tU a Father pittieth hiJ Childrm. If thou lofe thy friends, and the worlds favour, .'fhou lbalt have all Pfalm.ttr.;'. and the .onely exceUent upon earth, to love Thee dearely, and to pray heartily for thee. In a word; If Coloff.3.u. . thou lofe al! for Chri.ftJ" fake, He will be unto Thee vi!/ in vlli: And in *Him all things fhall be thine '~<Dicimu6 Crtatt1w i rJ in a farre more.fweet and eminent manner. ~0 Deo viden,quiPlicet in thin,gJ· arc yours, Whether Paul, or Apollo, or Cepha-s, feip(iJ fet_unaitl7} ~eum or the World, or life~ or death, or things prefent,or things t(~epropmtm vzdcat!J~>to ·come, .eAtl are youN, and yee are Chrijh, and Chrifl 7ltciCiZlllr tamen,ut qm- is. Gods . , dam effeCliM Do)atque ' • , . - . , • '1 lit aliquidpertinens ad 6,: Wh~n the fpmtuall Phyfitwn fh.all fee the fo1 e vcum;idque eadem vi- of h1s P:ments heart well foftned Wlth farrow .for fio . e qua De~M. Greg. finne, comfortably- w:1rmed with refre[hing beamcs ~e.Yal.Tom.x.Col.Ho of.._favour from the ·faceof Chrifr, a.ndfo.feafonably · · · · fit ted.
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