Thatworldly thingshindernsi from attainingbeauélyioyes.787 their hurts counteruailed (at leafl in their opinion) by their profit and benefit. But this maketh their of+atemoll mifera- ble, in that theirworldly delightsand comforts,arcbut mo- mentanie and offhort continuance; and the euils and pu- nifhmeiits vnto which theyhaue made themfelues liable,ei- therby their wickedgetting or abufing them, (hall be end- leffe an&euetlalling. For as the wounds of the body are !bone made,andlong in curing; fo thefe fores of fin which attend vpon theeuill getting orkeepingofearthly vanities, aremade in a moment, but when they arernade,theyare ne- uer cured, vnieIl'e in this life we applie vnto them the preci.. .ous baifum of Chrilcs blood, and wafh theft fpiri:uali wounds with the teams andwater oftrue repentance. Now thefecoils which theybring in reape& ofthe life to come, areeither privatiue or pofriue.'The privatiue euill which thofe worldly things immoderately loucdbring, is that they depriueandhinder thofe who fet their hearts vpon them, of theeternal! ioyesof heauen. For the Pfalmifl,enquiring of thediuine'Oracle oftruth : who (hallafcendinto themountain pfil ofthe Lord; mambo fhallfland.in his holy place; receiueth this an (were :he thatherb innocent hands, andapure heart, which bath not ltftvp his mindvnto vamtie, norfworne deceitfully. And theApo(lle fpcakingofthofe who are effe&ually called to the fruitionof thofe ioyes, faith, that not many wife men t.Corasósy. after thefiefh, not manymighty ,not many noble are called;but Godhatbchefenshefeokh thingsofthe World to confoundthe Wfe, andgodbathchafes the weaketbings oftheworld, tocon- found themighty things:; andvileThingsofthe taorld,andthings Whicharedefpifedbath Godchofen,and things whicharenot, to bring to noughtthins that are..And in another placebee tel- leth vs, that hewhofoWeth tothefiefb, sill ofhic f t h reape cor- Gx1;6,6. ruption; eue,,as centrariorife, hethat foweth to thefpirit,(ballof thefpirit reapelifeeuerlallin.So that commonly thofe whom the worldrefufeth, Godchufeth,whom it difgraceth;he ho- noureth; and contrariwile,they whom the world magnifi.. eth, thofe the Lord dcfpifeth, whom it imbraceth,thofe.he +reieð.Andhard it is and euen impoflible,tharourhearts 1tou1dbe fixedon the world,and yet our foules inheriteter- ee s naIl
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