Verfe.s.t, PROVERBS. fit; no time is vnfeaConable to repaire vnto it : no place is an impediment to- hinder vs from it : no bodily weakenes can difable vs Of it. This Tourneymay bevndertaken at midnight. aíwvell as at notine, and we may runtneapace as we tit in our bodes, and lie in our beds, and the feeblell cripple, may make as good freed as the íviftell Footeman : onely let vs not makeour hearts lame, or our waies vnpaiieable, by infi. delitie, vaine confidence, or mill conuerlation, with guiltines ofconlcience. Faith, and faithful( behaviour, put agilitie into the foule, and make paillage for it vntoGods pretence, with- out interruption. This ferueth alto to reproue their fouie, and to conuince Z thee' of vnrighteoufnes, which dare not commit themfelues to the name ofthe Lord for their fuccour, Jell it Iliould be bat- tered, and beaten downe vpon their heads, and therefore flic to filch fortiches as are founded meerely vpon their owne fancies. Howmany doe make the flea' their arm:, for things concerning their bodies, and this prelènt life, as is the cullome ofworldlings ? And how many doequit in lyingva nines, as idols, the lielpe of thedead, and praiers to be made for them when themfelues are dead, in the behalfe of their foules, in the life to come, as is the pra6liCe ofpapi ils ?See this point, and other materiali vies thereof in theninth chapter, farl'Iverle, and third doarine. Verte, z 1. The filbsqanceofthe' richman, is as it were hisfIrong ritie, and ,ua highWall' n his imagination. IN the former fentence was declared wherein the godly jl{eke for fafetie, and finde it, and that is in the name ofthe Lord :. and in this, wh_rein the wicked, especially being wealthy, presumeofdefence, but faile of it, and that is in their goods and poireflïons. For they fame affrong citie, which nodangers can vanquilh, and anhighwall, that no mu erie can: fraie and climbe ouer: but all is in their owne imagination,,, andnothing in truth : for they arc weakeand lowe, andvtterly:! voidofpower again(fany kind ofcalamities. See chap. ¡o.1Ç:., C Before:
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