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
-
iecnt