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476 That worldly things are vxprofitable. our faluation, before we can recciue the crowneofrighte, oufire(fe, and triumph as conquerers in cuerlafling glorie. CHAP. XX. Of the vnprofttablenef ofworldly vanities, incomparif re of gods f irituallgraces and heavenly ioyes. Nd thus haue I (hewed the vanitie of the world andworldly things, & that by rea- fon hereof they do not fatisfie & content vs.The next argumenrwhich in my gene - rall diuifon Ipropounded to perfwade al to a lull contempt of them,in come,arifon of fpirituall grace and eternal glorie,is their vnprofitalenes. The which alfo is a neceffariecon fequentoftheir vanitie:for becaufe they are vaine and worthleffe,therefore they cannot greatly profit thole that haue them; whereof it is that the Wife man hauing flamed tinat allir vanitie, prcfently infer - reth, that there is no profit vráer the Sunne. And holy Samuel exhorteth thepeople to ferue the Lord with all their hearts,and not to turne after vaine things,which could notprofit nordeliuer them, becaufe they were but vanitie. And our Sauiour Chrifl telleth vs,thatit will not at all profit a man, though he gaine the whole world, if hee lofehis faille, as hee furely doth, who more efleemethgold then god lineffe, and fetteth his heart more vpon thcfe earthly vanities, then vpon God himfelfe, and the eternal) ioyes ofhiskingdome. So that there world - ly things are like vnto glittering tinfels, which make a glo- rious fhew, but being vaineand worthleffe,ferueto no good vfe, but make thofe that weare them the prouder only, and not the warmer, as equally letting in the outward wind that cooleth them,and the inward wind ofvaine glorie,whereby they are (welled and puffed vp ; or like untoo cloathes full of snalhegold,which adorne vs voto others,butloade vs in our owne fenfe; for howfoeuerworldly vanities snake a goodly (hew to thole who nester had them, yet their owners find them §.Sei1:t. Thor there intro profit in world- ly things, to thofe who fee their hearts vp on the+w. ECClCf.aS t. t.5am.taaat. Htatth.16.26.