Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

Ofthejpetialleuils which accompaxieworldly vanities. 6t faulted with moll puilfant enemics,the diuel,world,& our own $efh, thinke this a fit time to fpend in furfetting and. drunken - neffe,reuelling and riot,exceffe and wantonnes, feeing we fight not for a corruptible crowne,or earthly kingdome, but for one Hieronym. ad which is heauenly and eternal? Now if we would flit there car- Laetam,totn.t. nail pleafures, we muti take heed that we do neuer embrace them, for if they catch hold of vs they willhardly kaue vs; we mull if it be poflìble be vtterly ignorant of them, and not fo much as know them,that we may not couet them ; for howfoe- tier it may be thought a point of more Chriflian valour to con - temne pleafures,when they allure vs with all their baits; yet it is more fecure continencie,and a more fatevi&orie, if we do not fo much as take notice of them. Ifwe will not haue them defile Augufi. ad vs,let them not touch vs;ifwe will not fuffer them to allure vs, Paulinum. E let vs not admit of their acquaintance, nor hearken to theirP'l 39,Toms. charmes. Finally, ifwe would eafily part with them, let vs not by cutlome incorporate them and turne them into our nature ; for as an ancient faith, It is one thing not to incorporate chofe things which are wanting,and another thing-to pul themalun- der after they are incorporated ; for thole, like meats, are eafily refufed;but thefe,likemembers,are not cut offwithout exquifit torments,and intolerable paire. And thushaue I generally the wed,that thee worldly things t.Sec s are veryhurtful and pernicious-to chofe who ouerualue them in That worldly their iudgements, and dote vpon them in their affeélions, pre- thingswith- ferring thembefore Gods fpirituall graces,and heauenly ioyes.d raw our carts. Now for the better vnderilanding of this point, let vs alittle em more infifl vpon it, lettingdowne more fpecially the manifold curls which there worldly things thus immoderatly loved pro- duce and bring forth; al which may ferne as fo many effeeluall reafons to diffwade vs from this exceflìue loue ofthe world and worldly things, feeing it is the mother of loch a motif/tons . brood. And for orders fake I wil refer al there euils, either vnto thofe finnes which hereby we commit direélly againtl God, or thofe culls and mifchiefes which through this immoderat loue arc caufed,both to our neighbours, and our fillies. Firfl there- - fore thefe worldly things ouer-piifed,-and exceffiuely loucd,do make vs to neglebl al dutie towards God, and to difhonor him diuers waies with_many.grieuous fins. For whereas we lhould cleaue