Burroughes - Houston-Packer Collection BS1265.6.C43 B8 1649

Mo es his Selfe-deni,4dl. ii mentto behad in thofewaies ; they fee fomething more glorious that makes them fo little to regard the glory that there is in the things of the World; when men might have all content in what the World affords, and yet they are willing to denyall for Chriff, fure- ly they finde much fweetneffe in Iefus Chrift, that takes up their hearts, and fatisfies their foules, orelfe theywould never doe as they doe;they have found fomethingbetter thenall thefe things, fomething that the world knowesnot of,that makes them doe as they doe; they would not ler goe their hold in thefeoutward things, were it not they had found fomethingbetter. Ifyoypfee a Bee leave a faire flower and flickeupon another,youmay con- clude, that the findes molt Honey-dew in that flowerThe molt locks upon : So hereGodspeoplewouldnever leave fo many faire flowers in the Worldsgar.- den, had they not fameother inwhich they findemolt fweetneffe; Chrift bath hisCarden, intowhichbee brings his beloved, and there the findsother man- ner of flowers theta any the World hash.

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