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Iobse.rt. Rom.s.f.6. Matthaó.só. S TO That worldly things are unprofitable. ing the true God; and kaue with griefe worldly vanities, when they haue no a(furance ofhcaucnly ioyes. Secondly, this parting with the world and worldly things, (hall be at that day moll bitter and gricuous,becaufe when they forlake them, they (hallleanethat finne behind them, which hath bin occafionedby them, either in their getting, keeping, or difpofing them.For being (gipped ofal thefe things,nothing (hall be left vnto them but the gaules of au euill conscience, which in fenfe offinart (hall then cri a out vpon them,becaulc they haue aspired unto honors by Machiauellian policies, or haue not vfed their credit and authoritie, for the aduancing ofverrue and fupprelfing of fin; and haue made themfelues rich with deceit and opprefflon, or haue not communicated their wealth to the reliefe ofthe poore,and the furthering of pious and charitable a &ions; and haue wallowed in carnali pleafures, vtterly negleóting the meanes of attaining vnto the ioyes of heauen. And thus finne (hall accompany them when al things else (hal leave them.And as Zophar fpeaketh, The wicked mans bones are full of thefinnes ofhie youth,and they fball lie doWne with him in the daft: with all which troubles, how miferablie is the foule ofthe wretched worldling trou- bled and tormented, when as he (hal vnder(land that in trea- furing vp thefe earthly vanities, he hach alto treafuredvp vengeanceagain(1 this day of the dcclaratióof Gods wrath; and that through that narrow way which he mull pale the' e is roome enough forhis fins to go with him, but no page for these things which by his hones he hath compa(fed? for death like an inexorable porter (landing at the doore, will not fuller any of these worldly things to go with him, but being the worlds, to the world he mull leave them. O how true then will he find the laying of our Sauiour,What will it profit a man to gaine the whole world, and to lofe his owne foule ?How muchwould he glue at this day for a good con - fcience, and to haue peace made betweene God and his owne foule ?How will he condemne his owne follyfor con. fuming his life and (irength in feeking thefe worldly vanities which now mull leave him,negleBeing thofeheauenly ioyes which being once obtained, would neuer haue forfaken him?