whichworldythingldring totheir mum 72! The thirdmill or mifchiefe, which thefe worldly things se£f.4, immoderatly loued, doe bringvpon vs,is that they deprive That world!), vs of our liberty, and inthrall vs in a miferable feruitude, thing? bring and cruel bondage. Forafter theyhaue vanquifhed vs with tnen:uro a that power and flrength which ourowne opinions hauearaer ter med them with,theyprefentlyenchaine our heartsand affe- ¿lions with the linksand fetters oftheirlove, and fo lead vs away intoa mifcrable captiuity; not fufferingvs any longer to ferue the Lord, wholeferuice aloneisperfeft liberty; nor yet tobe ruledby holy reafon,and aduifedandcounfelled by a foundand vnpartiall judgement; but puttingout the tiesof our vnderflanding, theymakevs togrind in their mil,Cpen- ding all ourflrength in their feruice, and taking vs wholly vein their imploiments,eitherabout thegetting,keeping,or increafing them. And whereas the Lord offereth voto vs, thatifwewill acknowledgehim, our oncly Lord and Ma- iler, we (hall hauea faire andcale feruice, and haue inward peace, and the quiet andcomfort ofa contented minde, and feed vpon the delicious and wholefome footle ofhis word and facraments; hauing for the prefent the vailes ofhis fpi- ritual! graces, and temporali necelfaries, for ourbetter en- couragement inoureafie labours,and his affured promife to giuevs when ourferuiceis performed, and our terme fini- fhed,thewages ofeternal( life and eueritfling glory ; yet like thewretchedJfraeliteswe arefo intangled withthe lout ofour bondage, that weare ready to preferre our painefull feruitude, before Chriflian liberty, thereconfttming and cruel labours, before that fpitituall cafeand peaceful{tran- quillity, theferuiceof the fpirituall Pharaoh, before the fer. nice ofour good and graciousGod, and the flefhpots, oni- ons, and gatlike ofthisworldly Egypt, without any further hopeof futurebenefit, before the Cptrituall Manna of Gods fanólifying graces,and our euerlafling inheritance in the ho- lie land. And that thofe whoare wordly minded be in this flare and condition,and hauing (hakenoff the feruiceofGod are become rtuevaffalsof the world, it mayappeare by that liucry and cognifance wherby the Apoflle bath difcerred the;namely their fubieelion&obedience voto their mailer, A a a Know
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