Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

That worldly things are vnprofitable. 477 them vaine and vnprofitable, as being in their greateft need, rather comberfomeburthens, then found comforts. But this will better appeare in the fpeciall examples of f.Set1.t. honors, riches and carnal! pleafures : for what profit is there That worldiy in vaine - glorie, the praife ofmen, and worldly preferments, honors are vn- if we ambitioufly affe1 them, and let our hearts too much profi able. vpon them; feting they do not fo much extoll and magnifie vs beforemen,as they abafe and vilifie vs in the fight of God? And what will it profit vs to be praifed ofinen, when God and our owne confciences (hall condemne vs, either becaufe we haue compaffed there honors by euill meanes, or finne in their fruition, by preferring them in our hearts before God and godlineffe ? What will itauailevs, if running ill in the fpirituall race we haue the applaufe of the Randers by; ifthe Iudge himfelfe cenfure vs as vnworthie to receiue the gar- land? It is not thefe waxen wings oftnens praifes, which are Netlauderhe- readie to wind euery way with the heateof their affe6lions, minuet tole- and melt andvanifh when the fcorching Sunne of afi&ion sec vi:tO ami'o_ arifeth, that will carrie vs to heauen; neither is it their dif- nes inde to de- praifes that can hinder vs in ourafcent, if we be fupported ponunt.rlle ví- with the wings of faith and a good confcience, much leffe deat qui coro- pull vs downe againe,when we are oncefeated on the throne s t. 1eítÇe li ofglorie:and therefore foolifh is our courfe,if we take more rosari,. Au. paines to feeme good in Phew, then to be fo in truth; to haue guff. inepift. the commendationsofinen, then the teftitnonie ofa good Ioan.Traft.ó. confcience; and bemore carefull to be applauded ofthofe, TO1149 'who muff Rand at the fame barre, then to bee approued of our Iudge, by whom one day we íhall be iuftified or con- demned. Neither is there moreprofit in worldly riches, feeing as 4.Set.3. our Sauiour Chrifl telleth vs, though a man bane abundance, That thereis nrs yet his lifeflandeth not in his riches; becaufe as elfewhere he Profit in world - fpeaketh, manliueth not by bread only, but by euery word which 2:urki s.r q. proceedeth ont of themonth of Clod. And though a man haue Matth.4g,. neuer fo great llore, yet he hath few priuiledgesaboue him, who bath only neceffaries, or fome (mall competencie : for as theWife manfaith, when goodsincreafe, they are increafed Ecclef.s.no. that ease them,and what commetkto their owners, but the behol- ding