Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

62 z That worldly thixgr ore tnomeutany and corruptible. they perifh in the very tatting, and paffe away as Toone as they are come, leaning behind them nothing but gr,efe and forrow, either betaute they were at all enioyed, or are fo bootie departed. So another doth moll liuelyexpreffe3 (hart tarriance ofthefe worldly pleafures, by comparing them to Grebor.Nyf letters written in the waters, which in the fame moment are fen. inEcclef. niadeand defaced, no print or imprellion ofrhem being left Hotnf behind: for as in that, the paine is nolefic, then ifa man did write in latting parchment,but the continuance ofthe letters written no longer then they are in making; fo there goeth as great paine to the obtaining ofthefeworldly delights, as of thofewhich are heauenly and eternall,and yet the fruition lafleth no longer then the very aél and operation, and being once part, no print or impreflion of them remaineth after them. And therefore feeing there worldly pleafures are fo momentanie, and offhort continuance; let as not let our hearts vpon them,but rather affe& and fecke for thole which &ohn tó.tx. are fpirituall and heauenly; for ifwe delight our lelues in the Lord, and in the fruition ofhis mercies, vouchfafed veto vs in his Sonne Chrifl,our Sauiour himfclfehath affured vs that this ioy (hall euer laft, and no man (hall be able to take it Pfalme ró.tt. from vs; and the Pfaimi ft telleth vs that thofe heauenly plea- fures which are at Gods right hand, endure for euermore. Efpecially let vs take heed that we do not compaffe vnlaw- full pleafures, or by vnlawfull meanes, or immoderately loue thole which in themfelues are lawful] ; for what folly and madnes were it, to hazard by fin the loffe ofmuch more ex- Pfaimeçn 67.cellentplca; ireswhichareerernal l,forthefruition of there which are no leffe vaine then momentanie? yea to indanger our foules to euerlafling torments, for the prefent enioying ofthcíe fading delights? CxAr.