Iobse.rt. Rom.s.f.6. Matthaó.só. S TO That worldly thingsare unprofitable. ing the true God; and kaue with griefe worldly vanities, when they haue no a(furance ofhcaucnly ioyes. Secondly, this parting with the world and worldly things, (hall be at that day moll bitter and gricuous,becaufe when they forlake them, they (hallleanethat finne behind them, which hath bin occafionedby them, either in their getting, keeping, or difpofing them.For being (gippedofal thefe things,nothing (hall be left vnto thembut the gaulesof au euill conscience, which in fenfe offinart(hall then cri a outvpon them,becaulc they haue aspired unto honorsbyMachiauellian policies, or haue not vfed their credit andauthoritie, for the aduancing ofverrue and fupprelfing offin; and haue made themfelues rich with deceitand opprefflon, or haue not communicated their wealth to the reliefeofthe poore,and the furtheringof pious and charitable a&ions; and haue wallowed in carnali pleafures, vtterly negleóting the meanes of attaining vnto the ioyes ofheauen. And thus finne (hall accompany them whenal thingselse (hal leave them.Andas Zophar fpeaketh, Thewickedmansbones arefullof thefinnes ofhie youth,and they fballliedoWnewith him in thedaft: with all which troubles, howmiferablie is the fouleofthe wretched worldling trou- bledand tormented, whenas he (hal vnder(land that in trea- furing vp thefe earthly vanities, he hach alto treafuredvp vengeanceagain(1 this dayof the dcclaratióofGodswrath; and that throughthat narrowway which he mull palethe' e is roome enough forhis finsto gowithhim, but no page for these things which by his hones hehath compa(fed? for death likean inexorable porter (landing at the doore, will not fuller any ofthese worldly things to go with him, but being theworlds, to the worldhe mull leave them. O how true then will hefind the layingofour Sauiour,What will it profit a man to gaine the wholeworld, and to lofe his owne foule?Howmuchwould he glue at thisday for agood con- fcience, and to haue peace made betweene God and his owne foule ?Howwill he condemne his owne follyfor con. fuming his life and (irength in feeking thefeworldly vanities which now mull leave him,negleBeing thofeheauenly ioyes which being once obtained, would neuer haue forfaken him?
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=