Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

586 Tilt vnce °ta.!nty of oßtaiain Voorld /y iee f . and the world a, c ro be a cuunted d ecritfu!1 pairuafiers;fo their wages are iultiy calitd faliè and deceitfull vanities, which make Come (hew of good when they are offered, but are nothing worth when they are receiued. So the Pfalmif} Pfal. 3 t.6. faith : /haw hated them nh; chgirethetrfelarestodecetfullva. cities, for f trtrff in the Ls -ed. 4.Set1.3 And yet thoubh Satan and the world doe commonlÿà_ Tbatrhougb bufe men with thel'e falfe rewards, anddraw them on with wen be of es deceitful hopes to doe them feruice; and though they haue deteixed,yet often found their fraud by their oneexperience, and haue they more met Y w Sedan and the euen daily b°en deluded by their faire promifes, and difap. wortd,then pointed ofcheir expe6rd rewards; yet are the mare ready to .Godbigsfel/e, bleeue them Rill vpon their often falfified word, then the Lordhitnfclfe who neuer failed of his promifes, and is al- mighty to performe, though hee hath committed his coue- nant and promifes to writing, confirmed them by his leales, and further ratified them by his neuer deceuing oath ; and are more readie to doe feruice to ehefe deceitful! mailers, vpon a vain hope of thele vnccrtaine rewards, then unto the king ofheaucn and earth,who offereth to affure them ofthe eternal!ioyes of heaven, thoughhee bee as farte from de- ceiuing, as from being deteiued. Yea in truth fo doe wee Beni fperando, naturally dote vpon thefe earthly vanities, becaufc they arc & malehaben- fubie t to our fences, and put vs in fome hope of pref nt poi- de, Iraq Vita' feffion, that we need not Satitns forceries, nor the worlds witchcrafts to deceive vs; feeing we are ready without their helpe to abufe our felues with vaine hopes, and to bee Rill in loue with the world and worldly vanities,not for that wee had, or prefently have, but for that wee expel in time to Haminnpt nta- come. And thus are we content to fend our lives in hoping d iorparsexpe- wellandfeelinr uill 11111ex eaing better though w fin maritnr. it daily worfe, vntill death comming, depriueth vs of our worldly hopes,together with our hues. And that which fee- methvnto me (if it were not fo common) like vow amira- cle, men Bill enrertaine thefe decciuing hopes, not onely a- gainft reafon and fenfe, but euen againfl the common expe- rience which they haue had in others, both which haue gone before them, and now hue with them; yea which they baue