That worldly things arevnpre{habit. $13 bundance, but becaufe wee did liberally bellow it in the workes ofcharity andmercy, and (pared for no cofl to fur.. therall pious and religious aEtions; vfing like faithful!fle- wards there rich talents to the gloryof our mailer, and the 000dofourfellow feruants. Neither (hall thofewhoheerc huntedafter worldly gaine berefpeEled becaufe they feazed on their prey,but he that bathfolloweiafier righreou(aesr and Prb.srAT. mercy,fhallfa'nd life,righteou(ne/'e and glory; as the Wifeman f eaketh. Finally, thepleafuresofthislifewilthenlittlepro- fitvs,neitherwillitauaile vs thatwee haue had much ioy in the world, but ioy in the holyGhofl; not that wee haue a- bounded in worldly delights, but that our foules haue de- lighted them(elues in the Lord, and reioyced in him, not onely in prolperity, but alto in ofiélion andtribulation.Yea contrari Wife wee (hall find at this day that thefe worldly things !hall but increafeour bits ofaccount, feeing wee !hall be called toa reckoning howwe hauegotten,kept and difpofedthem; which accounts ifwe cannot makeeuen, ei- therby (hewing how wee haue imployed the talents recei- ued, or by laying before the eyes of our Iudgc ouracquit.. tance and generali pardon bought with Chrifls precious blood,andfealed vntovs byhis holy fpirit, wee fhall be call into the prifon ofvttcr darkenefie, there to remaine vntill Z`t Kíf bone. we hauepaid thevtmoll farthing. So that at this day thofe erte- fhall bee our burthens, whichwereheere our honours; all our riches (hall then be turned into debts, which wee mull fatisfieby our flues or by our Sauiour, fhewing how wee haue laidthem out in the feruice ofour mailer, hauing his word for our warrant, orwhere wee are fhortin ourrecko- ning pleadingChrifis payment. And for all our paffedplea- lureswe fhall,astheWife man telleth vs, beebrought vnto Eccicf.zi. iudgement.Then fhall all that honourwhich we haue recei- tiedofmen, and haue not returnedvetoGod, be imputed vnto vs as fieakhand facriledge. Then(hall ourriches which wehaue hoardedvp,and not imployed in the feruice ofour mafler,and reliefe of our fellow feruants,bee accounted as flollea goods,and the ruff of our filuer and gold (hall bee a Iamç.3. witneffe againft vs. Then fhall all our pleafuresbut aggra_ L l uatc
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