Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

556 Of the mijeries accompanyingworldly things. touetoue twit to honor and preferment. They care not to brcake the laves runineo,eoob. of God andmen, they neither regard picnic nor humanitie, andtith srs f}rangernor familiar, kindred nor countrie, but are willing Trericbeo, to confound all, to ouerthrow all and to defile their confci- ¡4m patriam, ences withblood,murthers,confpiracies,treafons and rebel- penates. conic- lions,ratherthen they will faile to attains their proud hopes, gem jlammis thinking a kingdom wellboughr,which may be had at any dare(ime' prerio quolbet P riceahe areeuer P lottingmachiauellian olicies ' &thiuke Conftant benè, they are belt aduanced, wHé they rife to their defired height Senec.in The- by treading uponothers,whom by their fraud and treachery baide. they hauefupplanted ; theymake no account of lying, dif- fembling,fwearing, forfwearing, infidelitie and falfhood, if by all,or any oftheni they can fetue theirowne turnes.Final- ly, hauing nothing in them worthie praife,they are readie to commend themfelues by difpraifing others, and hauing no- thing fimplie good in them, they would appeare good in comparifon,by making others feeme worfe then themfelues. Thus allo couetous men are readie to commit all manner of wickednes to increafe their riches, as opprellion, extortion, crucitie, iniurie,briberie,vfurie, and all manner offraud and deceit; yea they will not Rieke with Ahab to murther inno- eents, that they may make a prey oftheir goods; with De- aoae to forfake Chrifl and follow the world; with Was to liftm'rf. betray their mafler,and with Demetrixe to flume vp perfecu- tion againfl the difciples of our Lord and Sauiour, if they fpeakeagainfl that whereby they haue aduantage; yea in truth they are worfe then Ixdae, for he would not fell Chrifi vnder the price of thirtie filuerpieces, whereas they are daily readie to part with, and forfeit that right and.interefl which theyhaue in himby lying, fwearing and deceiuing, for the bale offer ofa groat or penie; yea when they haue fold their foules unto fin, for the purchafe ofthis worldly pelfe, they Prou.sS.U. are readie (as the Wife man fpcakth) to tranfgrefle Gods law fora piece of bread, and that euen when they abound with wealth,and haue no fpur fnecefficie to prick them forward; hauing full bellies, with rauenous grcedines they hunt after euery prcy;and like the ffh which Peter caught,though they haue money in theitmouth, yet arc they nibling at euery bait,