Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

49.8 That worldly things are vrrprofitable. thingsabout vs plea fant and comfortable, feting the Scrip- tures teach vs, that thofe muff fira bee conformable vnto Chrili in fufferings, who afterwards muff bee conformable vntahiin in glory, that the way to eternali happineffe is af- fliaed and flraite, and that by manifold tribulations we muff enter into the kingdome ofheauén. Againe,this flate of profperity of i.ireth vs notofthe fauour of men; yea rather it maketh vs vtterly vncertainwho are our friends,and who are not :For they- who flourifh in the world haue many friends in fhew, and few in truth, feeing they are friends to the'ir profperity, and not to themfelues, they honour their places andnot their perfons ; it is the idoli of wealth which the route adoreth, and not the affe that beareth it ;it is thehonie of profit which thefe hungrie flies haunt, and not the pot that kecpeth it ; which being clean wafhed, and the honie put into another veffell, they firaight leaue that, and as ea- gerly follow this. It is not the man but mirth which is affe- ó ed;:andfolongasthey banquet, feal, and fporttogether, they make great loue and friendfhip one to another ; but let the bondofplcafure bee once broken,by want, or frckneffe, and theft friends are flraightway fcattered. Andyet are men fo blinded with felfe -loue that being in profperity, they thinke they haue fomany friends as theyhaue flatterers ; and howfoeuer their owne hearts tell them, that they themfelues fawne upon many whom they doe not affe6ì, and bowvnto a number whom they doe not inwardly honour, and keepe companywith diuers,not for any great loue to their perfons5. but becaufe they are fit infftuments of their pleafure and de- light ; yet fuch an opinion they haue of their owne worth, that they doe not once imagine that others paythem with . their ovine coine, but verily thinke that they are in good fadncffe,though themfelues ie$, and that all the honour and refpe&,: loue and friendfhip which other men (hew veto them, is Pimple and from the heart, though they know that themfelucsmake as fait ea (hew, and yet doe but counter- fait and diffemble. §3e11.6., And thus it appeareth that thefe worldly things doe not That wildly profit, in helping veto attaine Unto thofe things which are mots