Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

6O4 That the world and worldly thing! ore momentanie. trauell in it, let vs kaue our earnefi purl-nit of worldly vani- ties,which if :hey were not to be fortaken, becaufe they are contemptible, yet bccaufc aftergreat painesand care taken, we can haue no allured hope of obtaining them; and wholly fet our hearts and affections vpon thele heauenly excellen.. cies, purfuing them with heartie delire, and earneft endea- uour; teeing they are not only in themfelues of infini: mare worth and value, but alfomay be enioyed with much more certaintie and facilitie. 4.Se 1.i. That the world r corruptible, andfhailend, CHAP. XXVII. That the world and world y things are momen- tanie and corrupr:Ile. -zNdthushaueI(hewed that there. worldly things are not ntuc h to be efleemed or defired, yea to be ` contemned and defpi.ed, in comparifon of Gods fpiritual graces and heauenly ioyes,in regard that they are moftvncertaincin obtaining, though we fhould fet our harts vpon them,& purfue then with al cur endeauours, and thefe molt certaine and affured, to ad that loue and feeke them. Now let vs further confider, that ifby our great care and labour we do obtains them, the poffelhirm is no leffe vn- certaine then the fuite.And that both in refpe& of the things themfelues,& alto in refpe& ofvs,who are poffeffed ofthem. For firfl,al worldly things are moll vncertainewhen they are pofeffed,becaufe they are motnentany & mutable : rnomen- tany in regard of themfelues, as being in their owne nature corruptible,& Cubic& to diffolution; and mutable in regard ofvs;as being changeable,& rubieE&to alteration. In relpc an of vs they are vncertaine, becaufe we are mortali, & our liues momentanie; and therefore though they lhould not be taken from vs,yet we cannot long cótinue together, becaufe we fhall in íhor.t time be taken from setn. Corcerning the momentany continuance of thcfe worldly things,it may eui- dently appeare, if we confider that the whole world it felfe generally, and fpeciallyall that is contained in it, are but of Ilion