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That Chr f ia^ts fnouldnct dote o ;r tborldly vanities. 255 be in heauen, which is our owne countrie, and there ict vs lay Phil.3.io, vp our chicfc treafures, where they are exempted from all Mauh.6.r9.10 danger. Let vs vie this world and worldly things,as though. s'C01.7.31. we vied them not,neirher in our iudgements elteerning,nor in our hearts affeEting, nor in our praElife feeking them be- fore Gods fpiritual graces,and the eternal! ioies ofhis king. - dome; but let vs loath andcontenute them,when they come in this comparifon with them. Let not this earthly burthen of the flefh keepe dowse our foule and fpirituall part, from hauing their chiefe refidence in thofe heauenly habitations: for(as one faith) GodQaucvnte vs an earthly bodie, that wee corpus de terra fmuld carrie it into heateen,and not that by it,rhe foule fodeld be nobis dens ton - draneseandfredto the earth. It is no* earthly,butifree i /llbetrrlitvtip /um may make it heavenly. Let vs not be like thoie vncleane fifhes Z':; without finnes forbidden in-the Law,whichcontinually lie auuman per ip- tumbling and wallowingin the mud ; but vino thole which fumad terrain having hones do fwimme aloft vpon the waters:and as they, teraham1 t, though they be not able to flie towards heauen, yet often Chryfon.Ha indeuour themfelues to leape aboue theyvaters; fo although mil.ad pop. 55, we are preffed downs with thefe bodies offlefh, yet let vs tom.4. mount aloftin our foules by heauenlymeditations, and not Lcuit.r r. fuffer them continually to lie groueling vpon the earth, without anv defireor indeauour of inioying that freer aire offpirituall contemplation. And this (as one faith> is the Chryföfl.de reafon why the Lord hath given voto vs a firaight and vp- Provides. rightbodie; whereas contrariwife thebeaffs baneabodie °rats. grouëlingtowards the earth,that he might thereby teach vs to haue no commerce or community with the earth,and the fading vanities thereof, but might with our eies alto lift vp our hearts toward heauen,in divine and fpirttuallmeditati- :ons. in the time ofourinfancie, and fpirituall nonage, wee hate for want ofknowfedge affeEled theft trarft tone trifles; but now being better inflruEted, and hailing betterktowiedge of them, let vs ¡carne to contemne them. - for(asonefaith) this fireetneffe isdeceitfell, this labour vn- Auguft.ad fr't,uf rill, the feure cantinuall, and our exaltation dangerous, Lab i eP The beginning wit.hout:rrflóme, and the end` will r'épentanee. eAnd t hrs is the cdndttion ofal th.dgs ex this reefiSiftatc,9fm0- talrtie,