DoEi.se 8er.4.%3. rfal. j.45. 30 P Í O VBAB S. Yerfa. Then s man is wife indeed; whenhe is truety religious s He is pronounced happy and blcfled by the fpirir and word of God, happy for foule, happy for body, happy for flat; happy for pofterity. SceChap.g, Io. Fooles, c c. ] All finfull perlons are looks. Whatfoeuer reckoning the world rnakcth of them, or they make ofthemfclues,wefee here,and through this whole Booke, and a manyother places of Scripture what teflimo- niethe holy Ghofl giueth of them : two frail ferue for all, and theone is the complaint made againfl them in the Pro- phecieof Ieremy : Mypeople isfoolifh,they houe net dlnowneme t they arefoolifh children,and harmnonevnderflanding. And kali he might be thought to be troubledwith Idiots , and natu- rals, and againf} fuch to dire& his fpccch ; he addcth : They arewife todoeeui/l bat to doe wellthey haue no knowledge. And the other is the defcription oftheir wretched &late , declaa red by the Pfalmifl. Estill men fl »all not dwell with thee. The foolifhormadmenfhall not(landin thyfight:for thou hateff them that worke iniquity. Firfl, according to our Text, they are vtterly defáítuteof thematteroffolide wifedome :they are orangers to the feare ofGod : Loe theyhaue reic Zedthe word oftheLord, andwhat w (edome is in them ? Secondly,they doe theworkes offolly : they rebell againfi theAlmighty, whom theyare neither able to refill, nor flye from : they lode the fauour of him, who bath the gifture ofall good things) and incurre the indignation ofhim,whofc difpleafure workcrh certaine deflruetion. Theymay be free menand happy, and make themfeluesbond-flaues, andmi fcrable: they reieft commodities that be precious and eter- nail, and takevp vanities that be vile and temporary : they purchafe importable and perpetual) torment, with the purs fuiteofvaine and momentany plcafures. Whatwife manwould forfait the free-holdof a Lord(lip, and Palace,toliue as tenant at will in a fmoaky Cottage ?That wouldpa%away, and depart withhis goldand filar, to lade himfelfc with clay and mire? Whobut afilly creaturewould lye
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