Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

The Epifile Dedicatorie,. prices of thefe bate and copper coynes, and bring them to their owne value; by {hewing that there is no excellencie & true worth in them,but onely as they (crue for the prefent neceflìtie of our earthly Rate, and to furnish vs in our trauaile towards our heauenly countries then would there many and great benefits bee hereby deriued vnto vs. For if we could contemue the world and worldly vanities,as things oflnall worth,then would they not be as heauie clogs to hinder vs from running the Chrif ian race, and from afcen- ding in our meditations, into Gods king - dome, to take poffeflìon for the prefent of our heauenly inheritance with ourmindes and thoughts,till our foules and bodies doe come thither: then would we not Puffer them to take vp all our cogitations, care, fludie, and labour,about the getting or preferuing them, fo as wee haue little or no time left to performe feruice vnto God; or if at all wee doe it,yet with much diflraäion and pertur- bation : then would the tentations of the di- uell haue no power to draw vs into Clime, wanting this wages of iniquitie,and there al- luring baites, wherewith hee inticeth vs to come