Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

'Reáfont mo ting yr to contemne worldly pro!eritie. 49 eolily apparell,delicious fare,and plentie of all things in this world,buteternal] torments in the world to come: to Laza- rar,and with him, to almoll all thefaithfull, pouertie heere, and a great meafureofmifcrieand affli&ion; but after this life a large portion ofetcrnall ioy and bleffedneffe in Gods kingdome. And left I might feeme to force the parable, you 'hall fee that our Sauiour Chrill himfelfe doth purpofely thus applie it, where he.bringeth in Abrahamfpeaking thus to the rich man; Sonne remember than thon in thyltfe t nae re- Luke I 6.25. ceiuedît thy pleafure (or as the words in the originali more .,1.,;a w emphatically lignifie, thy good things, or thy portion of à íAaC[s >ú ,a good) and lefewrfeLazarta4patne.r, (or his portion of euils) a7.8á wt now therefore (faith he) is hecom forted,and thou art tormented. Which reafon of Abrahams being fyllogillically framed, in- ferrethtoworldlings afearefullconclution: Thofc who in theirlife timeliuein plentie and voluptuous pleafures, (hall be tormented in hellfire; and thofe who patiently endure miferiesand of li6lions, than be in ioyand blefhedncffe : but thou rich man liuefl in all plentie and voluptuous pleafures, and Gudspoore feruants patiently endure miferies and affli- dtions; and therefore thou mini be tormented in hell,where- as they (hall inherit the ioyes ofheauen. And in truth what (hew ofhope haue thefe fecure worldlings, that they fhould be preferred before the deare feruants ofGod; or what rea- fon haue they to imagine, thatthey fhall haue a double por- tion in Gods gifts, both in chi.slife, and in the lift to come, when his owne children mull be contented with a tingle, though a moli excellentpart,and may feldomebe fuffered to enioy both heauenly glorie, and worldly profperitie, vnleffe it be tempered and feafonedvnto them with manifold crof- fesandaffli&iions ?Yea let them know, andknowing trem- ble, that the righteous Iudge ofheauen and earth doth ad- minilier righteous judgement; and becaufe there is none fo bad, but haue in them tome good naturali parts,fome re'lrai- ning graces, and haue been the inflrumentsofdoing Tome thing which at leali hash had the appearance of ther- fore.God being infinit in bountie,will not lctany thing,that hachbut a thew ofgoodncffe go vnrcwarded, but giueth to E world-