"wimmn..tr 244 Cautions to be obfers+eelin lawful!pleafures. allo we ntull vfe the like care that wedo not by themmake our felues more vnfitfor the duties ofour callings,by making our recreations our trades and occupations, (pending both our time and flrength in them, whereas they fhouldonly re- frefh and fit vs for our lawful! labours, and ncceffarie bu- fìneffe. §.Seei.Io. Laflly, ifwe would haue our pleafureslawlull yneo vs, let wemsft care_ vs carefully watch over our (clues in the vfe ofthem, that fully take heed they be not veto vs Satans nets of perdition through our that Satan dath corruption, whereby hecatchethand intangleth vs in finne: notti ice yr neither is there anymore vfuall or yet more dangerousbaite hires, wherewith heallureth vs unto finne,then byoffering vnto vs thefe pleafing delicates ofpleafure anddelight.And therfore we muff notwithvnbridled affeElions rufh vpon them ; but beforewe give them entertainment we mull againe & again confider, firft, whether theybe lawful!, and then how they maybe lawfully vfed,carefully referring them to thofegood ends for which they were ordained, and vfing them with moderation both in refpeEtofour affections, and altoofthe things themfelues. But elpecially wemuff take heed that we do notfully ref! in thefe temporali and natural! pleafures, as being ourlafl end and chiefe happineffe; affeEling to haue our Paradife in this world;for fo they willbecomethe diuels birdlime, in which when we hauewallowed, we fhall not be able to mount aloft inheauenly meditations; and notable impediments to hindervs from the fruitionof thofe euerla- flingioyes in Gods kingdome: but we muff only vfe them as helpes and meanes to furtherand haften our fpeed in our fpiritual race,andas reafons Et motiues tomake vs affe6t that heauenlyby and pleafure with more ardent loue: conclu- ding with our felues, that if thefe earthly delights bec fo fwcet and comfortable, then how many, yea infinit degrees more excellent and admirable ioyes (hall we haue in hearten, when we fhail haue the fruitionof God himfelfe, and ofall thole pleafures which he hath prepared for his Saints, and that without the mixture of anymiferie orafliiction! And thus much concerning the fecond kind ofpleaítres which are natural! and ciuill.The third and lafl kind are carnall and worldly
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