Genera11 dires censfor a Flory of hell, then for the communion of Saints. Neither are higher placesandgreat Feasts free from filch froth atad tranf cendent villanies of the tongue ; Becaufe there the molt hold it a point of precifeneffe, to make confcience of their conference,,:fay tothemfelves, Oar,lips are .ourowne, who is Lordover ass .Pfal. B 2.4. labour more to Turn-ifx thernfelves beforehandwith complemental) phrafes, formes of flattery, flourifhes ofwit, varietic of ¡efts, and other vaine glorious oftentations of courtly ornaments, then with any one word oftheWordof God, world to come, or the way toheavén. They,I fay, therefore, too often unworthilydilhonour Inch meetings withmuch unn )ble deportment in their difcourfc Betides other deformities and indignities,_ how-feldome (hall we finde great Tables and foletnne Fealls, without thatcur- ledMsifcke,, mentioned, Lament. 3, 63 ?, But oh, how infid nicely unworthy; is it a man of honour and worth, to fairer with,patience,any roguifhFidler, fcurrill Iefler, or fligma- ticall loupeofBelial, to fall foule upon thofe men, the trueft Noblesupon earth,@fal. i 6.3.. Of whom, and the time is at hand, .even the proudefl of them all, repenting andgroning for anguifh of ipirit, will fay, . nay with hideous yellings roareout : Theft were they whomwe had fometimes inderifon, oindaProverbeofreproach, wefooles recounted their life mad, nee, and their end to beewithout honour.: but howare they now nurnbred amongff the children ofGod, . and their lot is among the Saints ? Therefore haveweeerred from the may of Truth, 6-c. VVhere.isnow the bravery and pompe of our high places? the earthly paradiftofourdearell pleafures? the Role buds, with which wecrowned our felves in the.fpring of our youth? They areall withered, vanilhed, and come to nothing ;. they are paffed away like ;. a fhadow, as the remembrance of a guefl that tairieth but a day ; nay, as a; Poafl that hafted by. Thus much aIfo ofVif rations. Now,. I II. Concerning naturaii .ac`lions, as meate., drink, fleepe, &ç.1 {hall not fay much.For were it !not, that through the curie of nature, vie . wofully befot even common fence, and infatuate our reafonwith feniùality and wilfull blind.. ne ffe
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