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5182, The vncertaintieof obtaining ?borldlythings. delight vs in themfelues, but rellifh our mouthes when they arediflafled with the bitrerneffe of worldly miferies. And for the other they are not only in themfelues Tweet and ',In- fant, but alto free from the mixture of all worldly euils, not, tainted withthe leaft trouble, nor dilafled with the fmalle + griete; for then all teases (hall be wiped from our eyes, and ail matter of mourning ceafing, we (hall be repleniflied with ful neffe of boy, and be cuen rauifhed with Chore happie plea_ lures which are at Gods right hand for euermore : which if we would truly feeke, we fhould furely find, and attaine ve- to them with farre leffclabour, then we Spend in compiling worldly vanities;and hauing obtained them,we (hall fecure- ly poffeffe them without trouble, care or faare; and neuer hauecaufeto bewaile theirloffe, becaufe they are eternal!, and fhall neuer betaken from vs. CHAP. XXVI... That though with dour endeavours roe feeko for worldly things, we are not fure to , obtainethem. Ruing (hewed themanifold miferies which ac- company worldly things : it followeth that according to my general! order propounded, I come to the next maine argument, which may diffwade any from the immoderate loue of the world and worldly vanities ; which is their great vn- certai ntie in refpea of thofe whodefire, and fet their hearts vpon them ; for though it were imagined, that the things of the world n hich men hunt after with fuch hungric appetites, were in themfelues cruel)? good, and ofgreat worth and ex- cellencie; profitable to thofe that haue thetrt,ío long as .hey keepe them in their poffeffion; and exempted from all the former miferies ; yet .wcre there great reafon why wce- fh:.uld contemne and defpife them, in comparifon of Gods fpirituallgraces and kauenly ioyes ; and why wee fhould giue Chefs the preeminencefarte aboue them,in our budge. mans, That worldling often fille in their defirrs, and lofe all their