Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

&9 2. ,7bat.worldly things are momentany and corruptible. 1Bternueprimi. he is allured vntò fin, he will be ready to fay with that godly fie .etermu.Si athcr: The eternal God I: atbprarnifed me eterna/I ioyei; andif f ertdrde.a, cx beleenehim,l afro ofamertallmanfhalbe made etemail: why the' ,rortait1ram O impure ivarld,irhy then doofi thon mutter in mine ca'es thy be .tcrsui,&C. witching charmes ?r;by dog thou fee(to feduce me out of the right geR.Tom.to, Svm..19. ia n^ay ?th?uwouldeft forloue of thee withhold mefrö eternity, and 1,uc.1.8. yet thy (elf art ready to peri(h.0 what rrauldefl thou doifthy ioier *ere permunent ?ifthoulb?retruly fweet, Whom wouldell thou not deceitee;;: hen to being bit ter, thou counterfeit eft plea ling non- riJhrrent ? And yet though the world were fincerely fweete, without the mixture ofany gall ofmiferie, there were little reafon,why we fhould match it in Our loue with our gratious God, teeing it were ail but a drop in comparifon of this infi- nit ocean offweetnes;if this creature fhould endure for euer, yet how much more fhould we loue the Creator,from whom ithath;receiued all it goodncs, as a little fparke from a great fire? how muchmore then fhould we now negleelit in cotn- parifon ofthat infinit goodnes,feeing his fweetes are bitter- nes ?& if in reape& ofhim,we might well contemne it though it were permanent; let vs now much more contemne it, be- caufe iris tranfitorie. And fceing as the Apollle fpeaketh,. he Galath.n.s. that foweth to hú fleJh,/hál of hieffefh reape corruption,let vslow to the firit, that of the ffririt we may reape lrfeeuerlaFling. 4.Sea 6. But let vs confiderthevanityofvvorldlythingsinthefpe- Thac.rsoridlyho. gallinfiances. And (irA, what can be more vncertaineand norsaremo- momentanie then honors and preferments,which though mimetic and they (.land againfithe violence of outward accidents,yet of- vncertaine Centimes fall with their owne waight? for how many are there, who hawing with great paines climed vp Rep by fiep the ladderofhonor,are in a moment cal downeby a fuperi- «our power into the lowefl degree ofdifgrate and contempt? how n9anyhauing veith much fweat and labour afcended al- mofi to the highefl top ofthe (eepecraggierockeofhonor and glorie, do mille their footing,and fo tumbledowne into thelowefibottotne ofa defpifed condition ?Looke vpon the example ofourfirfiparents, who not content with the glo- rious condition ofthe moll excellentcreatures, but *liming higher,and afpiring to the glorie. of their Creator, got a fall as. 9