Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

49a 7 atworldlythingsare vaprofitable. preferue; the health ofourConies, making them flrongand vigorous in grace and verrue; whereas the glutting fatietie ofearthry vanities corrupts the mind, abates our ipirituail flrengrh, and filles vs full ofthe corrupt humors of vice and firne. $.Sell. }, And as they do not helpe to low in vs inwardly the feeds That worldly ofgrace,fo neither do they caufe vs to bring forth outwardly things doarot the fruits ofgodlines:forhowCeeuer theambitious man hath makevr more attained vnto honors and preferments,wherby he is enabled fruitPullin gaud to defend the wcake and toíhelter the poore veder the Ilia- worker. dowof his prote&ion °yet either is his mind fo wholly taken vp with his purpofes and plots ofriling, that he hath no lea - fure to thinke of the poore, or fcorneth to haue his thoughts fixed on fuch mean fubiedls, or finding fome flrong oppofr- tion, dare not be feene in the poore mans caufe, left crofling his compeeresin their will,they should croffe him in his next preferment; or finally, tofpendeth his whole bate in bribes, and wearicth all his friends in hisowne Cuits, for his further aduancement, that he hath neither will, leafure, nor meanes to do good vnto any in diflreffe,nor to releeue the neceffìties ofthofc that are aflií ed.So like wife they who fer their harts vpon pleafures, though they abound in fuperfluitie, yet arc they moil poore in charitie, and in the workes ofinercie; for as they exceed in wealth, fo alfo in riot and exceffe, and all they can rake together is little enough to minifier to their voluptuoufnes, and to confume in pleafures : yea fo wholly are they Pet on their delights, that they had ratherfpend ma- ny pounds in feafis and banquetting, in maskes and fhev<es, fports andpaflimes, then to giue a few fhillings towards the reliefeofapooreChriflian; and can more willingly find in their hearts, that many fhouldperifh for want of food, then to abate the leafl part of their pleafure, ordenie voto their neuer fatisfied foules any one delight.Finally,ifa man fathis heart vpon the earthly Mammon, though hee abound in wealth,yet is hee lure to bee moll poore in good workes, though he flow in the plentic ofmcanes, whereby he is ina- bledtodo good,andto.exercife his bountic in the workes of enercie, yet are his fruits and good works at the lowefl ebbi, becaule