Hofes 7.y. 700 That worldly thingscaufe manyetas to our neighdourr, that time in carnaldelights,which is allotted to Godsworfhip and feruice; &euen on the Lords Sabbaths to forfake thecom. munion ofSaints, and the publike excrcifes ofreligion, that they may followtheir recreations, (ports and paffimes: or if they get leave of thcfe tyrannous mailers to ioyne with the faithfull, after a formali manner to ferue God, yet it isonely with their bodies;for as for their mindsthey runa whoring af- ter theirdelights, either thinking ofthofe which they lately enioyed; or elfe offome newpleafureswhich they purpofe to enioy in the time to come. And therefore feeing thcfc worldly vanities hinder vs from the performance of Gods feruice, if they bee immoderately loued and efleemed; let this ferue as ,another:effeeluall reafon todiffwade vsfrom letting our hearts upon them, feting they difable vs for thofe amine and chicle duties, for whichwe came into the world, andmaking vs vnfit to glorifieGod in his faithful( feruice,which wasthe chicle end ofour creation, they taufe vs to (pend our lilies in vain e, in the fruitleffe feruice ofSatanand the world ; and fo making vs to negle& ourferuice and dude to our great Lord and mailer, they alfo depriue vs ofthat wages whichofhisfree grace hee hath promifedas the reward of our labours, euen ourheauenly inheritance, and the .eternall.crowne of glorie and falua- Lion. CHAP. XXXII. That worldly thingsimmoderatly lowed, are thecaujes ofmany twils inrei elï ofour steighhotre as ofiriuiice, wrongs, pride, and infólencie. zNd thus haue I (hewed .that thefe worldly 1 as tngs ben > oueruauenour judgements, Th worldly at e t t ç 1 o, r- hia ib ld i ja things immode- and toomuch loued in ouraffc&lions,arc the rarely toned are caufes ofmany finnes committed dire&lya- thecrWteofa& H' gain(t God himfelfe. Nowwe are come to find of ìn- fpeake ofthofe culls and mifchiefes which iuñice. they.caufe, both to our neighbours, and ourfelues. And firfl: for ourneighbours, theft worldly things are the chiefe caufes . andoccafionsofallìniudice,wrongs,and injuries which are of- fered'
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