S PILOTERRS* Chapr. t Secondly, pleafures and profperitie will make themproude Z' andhigh minded,fetifeleire, and hard-hearted, fierce, violent, and licentious, more then the vnreafoiablecreatures. Thirdlie,their ovine miferable cafe, and Gods righteous Lawe, doc call them from folace and mirth , to forrowe and c.4.9.& 5.:. mourning , that theymay be humbled ,and pardoned, if they be Gods chofcn ; or becaufe they, are to.be damned and de- {froyed,if theybe reprobates. Ini}ruF ion, that in all our plentie , promotions, dif orts, T fe, and delightswhatfoeuer, weeconfideras well what vier be , as what wee haue,andwhether our repalisare afwell warranted to vs,as our defrres arc carried to them. But how ¡hall i know that I may bemerryand cheerful l: that comfort andgladnes belong tomee ? When thous finde¡l íL- uation confirmed to thee by the rcrniffiot of thy ,finnes 1. and grace ,andGinceritie,dwel lingwithin thee; Begladyeerighte- ots, (faith the Prophet.)andreioyce. in theLord, andbeia} ín11. it yee that arevprighs inheart. Reioyee in theLord, óyee righteoau : for itbecommethvpright men to be thanketiall. But ás for them that be impious, vnrighteous, or hypocriticail di tremblers , kt themweepeand,lament for their finnes, and the däungerof their foules :. for that is the moil feemelie exercife which theycan performc. And if theywill not addia themfelues vnto it voluntarilie,.they. will (in time) hedriucn vnto it by compulfion. Either theymu(Iturne their laughter intomour- ning, orGod will make them tomourne for their laughter. Their mirth and ioy is but momentanicj& for a fhort feafon: and better it is neuer to be glad, then not to rcteinematter ofgladnes for suer. For that caule among others, Salomast doth fobafelyelleeme ofthe ioyand iollitie olvaine perlons, laying, Better it is to heare the rebuke., ofa wifeman , thus that a manfhoceld heare the fang o f fooled. For like theuoyfi ofthorn's wider thepottu the1tngbterofthefeele: this isaljovanitie. Yf j Reproofc. ofthem t.at being .leal¡ wifeandvertuous, are moti greedilic giuen to fatisfie their delires and appetites, thoughbeing fouledmesfolicitcd,they can ncuer.yct bef-ullie fatisficd.. Some 3.
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