fe/fc,.inriching examination. - I 59 · ·.to the foules ofour brethren~ that they may bee brought:·to everia~Hng happinem~; then to their :bodies·and Lives, that we m,ay refrelh ,and releeve them, according to their wants, as the'Lord fba11 make us able; afcer to all creatures, as we fhal1 fee and obferve, to the power, wifdome an~ glory of our gracious God to ihine in them. 7· Seventhly, Forfaking the world, is a fure figne of a faving faith. / For no man can _poffil?Iy rent his atrecrion from the· world ; his. fweet finne J and eartbly vanities ; untiH his fonle hJve received by tlrle hand of faith from the fpirit of God ; an aurhenticall affurance of att· i?Jtmorta/1 Crawne int!Je Heavem; fealed unto him by the pre:- : :cious bloud ofthe fonne of God. Every man flatu... rally is greedy of joy and contentment; a'nd farre more holdfafiof prefent comforts, tho~ghweake and tranfirory ; then appeheniive of unfeene fu– ture happinetres, of which he bath no found and .· tertaine_ho]d, though excellent and endleffe. Hence-it is~ that naturall men being in prefent tafte and poffeffion ofwotldlypleafures, andvery fen:G- .· ble of their fenfu11I fw~etneffe, and W<lnting faith' and affurance ofthat ever1aftingbleffedndf~above~ With muchgreedineffeJ and the !lrong torrent of their affet'tions, follow and purfue theprefenr,and · will not part wirh theworid,becaufe they know no ., o~herI:Jeaven, they are affured of no other happi– neffe. Howfoever they may pretend and proteft to the contrary,,yet indeed and truth, both in !lf· fecrion and practife,they preferre theworldbefore God:~ earth before heaven, time before eternity, , a . Tnefcventh figneoffaving fJith. Hcb,J1 ,14,&c,
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