Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

51z chat worldly things are vnprofitable. thing but torments with vs ?O how manywo rids would a man in this cafe glue for the redemption of his fouleoutof thefehellifh tortures, which hee hath plunged himfelfe into for the obtaining,for a fmal moment of time(as it were)a li t- tie handful of there earthly vanities?how much doth he now loath thofe things which before hee fo much lotted, Peeing by wofull experience hee findeth that they haue depriued him of thofe true and eternall ioyes, and haue been the occa- lions ofhisfearefitll condemnation ? $.Sd .13. Finally, though worldly vanities fhould accompany vs to That worldly the graue, yet what will they profit vs at the day ofiudge- ails wit! not ment? for then we Ihalibe examined, not how we haue flou- profro vs' at ¡be rifhed in the world, but how faithfully we haue ferued God; oadda neither will the Lord our Ittdge then confider how honou- tablewehaue been amongfamen, but how much wee haue honoured him, who hath caufed vs to bee thushonoured; nor what great offices we haue borne, but how we haue dif_ charged them; nor reIpe& vs according to our earthly pre ferments , but according to the meafure ofthat glorywhich by them we haue deriued to him,and ofthat good which we haue done to his church and the poore members of Iefus Chrifi, with that credit and authoritie wherewith God en. dowed vs,Thenthe Lord will not regard how many praifes we haue lradamongflmen,but how praife - worthie we haue been in his fight; not how they haue magnified vs,but how we haue magnified his glorious name; nor how many caps and knees we haue had fromour infcriours, but how oft and zealoufly we haue humbled our foules,and bowed the knees of our hearts in prayingvnto him' for his mercies wanting, and in praifing him for his benefits:receiued. Then will not our Iudge refile&vs for our riches which wee had in the world, ( for he will not receiue bribes,neither (hall wee then haue any thing to glue) but thofe at this day fhall haue his fauour, who haue abounded in the fpirituall riches of his fan&ifyinggraces; bee will not regard how rich wee haue been inlands, but inholineffe of life, not in ourchefts,but in our confciences ; he will not efteeme vs for our wealth,but for our good workes; noryet bet aufe wee in this life had a- bundance,