Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

TñevneertAinyofobta iningtrorldlythings. 589 to the fpirituall man, and too much difcomfort him in his way toheatten, being to trauellas in. a defolate vt'ildermeffe, and hauing no hope ofconuenient lodging, and comforta- ble entertainment as he is going on his iourney. Whereas hauing for the prefent but an ill welcome to the world, and many an hungrie meale and hard lodging, yet frill being in hope ofbetter it leire firugleth and refifleth, but fuffereth him to go on,if not with more patience and agreement, yet with leffe impatiencie andoppoliition. And thus you fee that though we fhould let our minds lf . vpon thefe worldly things, and purfue them with all our en- T hat dlinge deauours and delires, yet wee are not lure to attaine unto do often by their them. But I may adde farther, that thefe who earneflly la- too earneflla- bour after thefe vanities,.do not only many times faile of their booring lofe the hopes, but doe therefore falle moll commonly becaufe of fruit Oki"' their too great earneflneffe, their too much delire hindering.bours. their obtaining the thing defired, and their ouermuch halle volantas nîmia, in running afterthe things they dote vpon, making them to grain/pi neeat> hauebut the worfe (peed, whileil either they fall for want of taking heed, or runue pall the goale at vnawares, whilefl with vnprouident eagerneffe they thinke to preuent allo- ientament thers. Wherein we may fee the Wife mans obferuation veri.- fccedane. fled, I returned (faith he) and f fa:v under the Sx0ne., that the EccleCS.rr. race is not to the finift, nor the battaile tothe flran , &c. For thofe who grafpe mot} greedily thefe waterifh vanities, do hold leafi of them in their hands; and they who ferue the world with all paines,and laborious induflrie,are oftentimes by this vnthankfull mailer punifhed for their ouermuch dili- gence, andlofe their reward, becaufe they haue bin too ear - nefl in their butnes, and ouer laboured themfelues in doing their worke, hauing now only their labour for their paires, and infiead of their wifhed wages, nothing elfe but griefe and miferie.. Others there are whom theworld feenteth to vfe with more fauour in the beginning, not only gluing them intertainment with a fmiling countenance, but alfa putting carnet} into theirhands, and after Come feruice done unto ir, paying them liberally (as it were their firfl quarters, wages :but after they (being incouraged with this liberali pay)