Mat, 19.24.16 148 PROVER.R;S® Chap, they that! feele the torment, their haughty mindcswould bow lower, their daintymorfells would be faredelicate, and all their (ports , their mirth , and pleafures would lofe their rellifh , and turne to be bitter and vnpleafant vnto them. Now therefore in thetime of their reprivall, let theta fue for a pardon, and fo preuent the punifhment, which otherwife remayneth for them. And let not the difficultyof obtay- ning grace difcourage them from feeking of it , but rather augment their importunitie . Our Saviour cqualizeth that vice of couetou(nes with this ofvnchaftitie, when hee faith, It is eafierfor a cable to goe through the eye ofa needle, thenfor a rich man to enter into the kingdore ofGod : yet when his Difciples amazed thereat, demanded, Who then canbefaxed? Me nitrated the matter, and laid , With men it is vnpoffible, butwith Godallthingsarepaifi61e. Nowas worldltnetfemaybe remitted,fo may adultery:as the loueof wealth maybequelled by Gods Spirit,fomay the liking ofan harlot : bothwhores, luch a one as was R hab, and whore hunters, fuch an one as was Samfon, maywell be forgiuen, and cured, and faced, but with great humiliation, with many teares,with ardent prayers ,with much mortiitca. tion. And who wouldnot conflantly,and continually fpcnd hinnlelfe in thefe both day and night, for the fruition of Gods fauour, the recouery ofhis owne fafety, for hope, for comfort, for life,and for faluation Vetee 2 0. That thou mayeFi wakein theway ofgood rr,en, ndReepe the paths oftheius`1. He verrue of wifedorne bath beene commended forthe prorcc`fion, and defence, which ityeeldeth againftwic- ked wayes, and finfull people , which now bee arnplifieth by the contrary , fhewing the beneftes ofit for dire6tion to good %ayes, and the fccicty, and exampleof godlyperlons, as will he the better percciued, if thou looke backe to the twelfe and thirteenevcrfes,andannexe this vnto them in this manner : Itfhalldeliuertheefront, the etrillway , sandfrorry the man
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