690 Thatworldly thingsbringcontempt ofgrace àndglory. cefliue pridebath not gone before.So that one may boldly af- firme, that if pride onely bee not plagued with this fearefull iudgement offrenzie and tnadneffe, yet it is more often thus punifhed then all otherfins befides. The which fierceand fud- den vengeanceofGod,which he takethon proud perlons, the Prophet A'falachieexprefl'eth, by comparing Gods wrath bur- ningagainfi them,to aburning furnace,and proudmen to flub- M31.4.1. bit. /heday oftheLord (faith he) commeth,thatfballburneasan ouen ; and allthe proudfull be (lubble, and the day that commeth fballburnt them vp, faith the Lord of hogs, and fballlearee them neither root nor branch. And therefore feeing thefe worldly things are the common caufesofpride,and pridebringeth with it fuch confufion and deflru &ion, let this ferueas an argument tomakevs contemn thefe harmeful vanities, not immeafitrably dcfiring themwhenwewant them; nor exceflìuelyefleetning and immoderately loving themwhenwee haue them ; and fo if we want thefe thingswhichwe ncgle&, our minds will notbe much deie&ed; or ifwe haue them, theywill notbee much ex- alted andlifted vp; neither canamanbe proudof thepoffeflion ofthat which hedoth notouerualue in his iudgement, and vn- meafurably loue in his affe&ion. 4.Se8.6. The firth fin againft God, which there worldly things too That worldly much rPteemed,& immoderately loued plunge vs iisto,is either things bring negle& orvtter contempt of God himfclfe, his fpirituall gra- with them çon- ces, and heavenly ioyes; for our affe&ions being finite are limi- temptofGod, tedand retrained to their obit&s, fo that being conuerfant and exercifed aboutfome, they in the meane time negle&o- thers. And therefore if theycannot with their full vigour and beate affe&many things being diuers;howmuch leffe can they at once loue Goo and the world, fpirituall graces and earthly vanities, eternall ioyes,and thefe tranfitorie trifles, feeingthey are oppofite and contrary the one to the other ? And this Luk.16.13. our Sauiour Chrifi teachethvs, where asbee faith, that noman canferue two mafiers;for eitherhemufi hate the oneand lone the other, or elfehefhallleane to theone,anddefpife the other;ye cannot fcrueG.dandriches. So that there is no halting betweene the Lord,and thisworldlyBaal, for the feruicc of the one, is the contemptoftheother, and the louing ofthe one, is the hating ofthe other.It is trueindeed in reafon that the moreweabound with
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