*04 Thatwodaily thingsAlfa encreafecondemnation. perfluous delights, fuffcring the Poore to flame for want of breadto feed them, and of clothes to couer their naked- nelfe. §4see49, Lalily, as the abundance ofthcfeworldly things)abufed That worldly through immoderate lone,increafeth the reckoningofchofe tbingcimm.ede, whohaue had them, fo.do they alto increafe their punifh, rattlyloucd,n- rnents and hellifh condemnation, when as theyarealtoge, creafetbe,rcnn- thervnabla tofet flraight their reckoning, being called to demnnti(e glue theiraccoñtbefore their lud a For it is iufi withGod tQusgbttfetbë,b g , that thole who in thislife haue abufed the greatefi profperi- tie, Mould in the life to come endure the greateflmiferie:_ that they;who are mofi,deepely indebted to Gods bountie forhis benefts,fhouldhaue the firaitefiimprifonmenr,when hawing riotoufly and vnthankfully fpent the Lords.talents, theyhaue nothing topay : that theywho hauemoti difho. noredGod in his owne gifts,lhould proportionabliereceiue the greatefimeafure ofpunifhment: and finally, that they who hauing receiucd the moil liberaiwageshaue performed worfiferuice, íhouldbe beaten withmofihiripes. So that at this day the abundance ofthefe worldly things (hall bebut as it were the greater pileofwood, which being let on fire with the flameofGods burningwrath, fhalleternally con. /limethem who haucthus vnthankfullyabufed them; and theirburningconcupifcence after thefe earthlyvanities,(hat but increafe the furiousheateofthofe hellifh flames, which (hall torment themwith tortures that are intollerable, and yet eudleffe andeuerlafiing.So the greater honorsmenhaue had in earth, the greater then (hall be theirfhameandcon- fufion, ignominie and reproch, ifthey haue abufedthem to Wifyi.f.6.7.8..the difhonor ofGod, and oppreflion ofhisferuants; forthe miQhtieJhadbemiestily tormented:And hewho is Lord otters!: willfparenoperfon,neit her /haIbefeareanygreatxes,for hebath made thefmilland great, andGareth for all alike; hut for the Gee or.Mo- mtghtieabideththe f rertriall.-To-which purpofe one faith, a4,0.6.cap.4thaç the,higher a wicked man lining in hit fumes is exalted, the morefearefully (hall hebe ouerwhelmed with grieuous ptuallimens;for whenthatwhichaduancedhim isvanifhedp that
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