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Motities

to

perf'ade

vi

to hate

en

our

repentance.

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5

laflinghappineffe

and

bletfednef%

in

Gods

ki

ngdotne to

be

matters

ofleffe

importance, than the

obtaining

of

force

-vain

pleafures,

vrtcon(}ant

honours

or bate

commodities, let

vs

turne

vnto

the

Lord

betimes by vnfained

iepentance,

and

according

to

our

Sauiours aduice,

Matt.

6.3

3

.

Let

vs

firfl

Matth.6.f3,

leks

the

/eingdome

of

God

and

the 'righteou

fnefe

thero

f,and

then

worldly neceffaries/ha16e

cafi

vnto

vs

as

a vantage

in this

maine

argarne.

If

our

houles were

on

fire

we

would

feeke

fir!}

to

preferue thofe things which

are

mod

deare and

pretious vn-

to

vs,good

houfbould

fluffs

before lumber, Iewels before

iluffe, and children

before

Iewels;

but

our hues

are

dayly

in

a

confumption,et

dum

crefcimus,

vitadecrefcit,

whilft

wee

grow

and increafe, our

Bues

decreafe, and

therefore

in

the

firil

place

let

vs

feek

to

preferue

ourfoule,which

is

our chiefe

Ievrel,and

not

fuffer

it toperifh

through-impenitencic,whilft

ive gaine

Lome

earthly

vanities..

But moft lamentable

is

the

pxa6}ife

ofmoft

who

hue

as

though

they

were neuer to die,

or

as

though theyhad taken

ofGod

along

leafe

oftheir

Bues

which

is

to

expire

at

a certaine

appointed

tine;

and

this

makes

them.deferre

their repentance

and

to,put

the

euil

day

far

from

them,til

at

Lail

death attacheth

therm

and carrieth

them to iudgment;

and this appeareth by the

fcriptures

and

continual

experience.

lob

[peaking ofcarnal

fecure

me

faith,

that

they

take the

tabret

and

harpe

and

reioyce

in the

found

of

the

organs,

they[pend

their layer

in wealth

and

fuddainely

they

go

downs

to

thegrarae.lob.

z

2.2 r

.

So.Ecc1.9,

t

2;man doth

not

know

rob

z

r, r3;

z

Iö.

-his

time

butas

the

fijhes

which

are

taken in an

euill nette, and as

Ecdef.9.z

1.

the

birds

that

are

caught

in

the

fnare,

f

o

are

the children

of

men

Stared

in

the euill

timewhen

it

falleth

vpon

themfuddainly.When

the euill

fruantfhal

fay

in

his heart,

my

malter

doth deferre his

gemming,

and lhal

beginne

to

[mite

his

fellowes,and

to

.

eate

and

drink.e

and

to

be

drunken;

that

[truants

matter

will

come

in

a

day

when`

he looketh

not

for

him,

and

in

an houre

that

he

is not

aware

of

andwill

cut

him

offand

giue

him

his

portion

with the

vnbeleeuerr,as our Sauiour

hath

-aught

vs,Luk.12.¢á.q.6.

find

Lu

c:

r

n41

.weknow

what

hapned to

the rich man

who

faid vn

to.

his

foule, "4.19-34°

Soule thou haft much

goods

`laid

vp formanie

yeeres.

lineareafe

4ate,drinke, end

take

thy

sal

imc,

euen the

faine night

/God

fail

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