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670 flat *oddly things withdraw oxr heartsfrom Cod. cleave vnto the Lord with all our hearts,louing,trufling,& ho} ping in him,wholly and folely,as being our chiefe goodnes,our omnipotent Creator,our al-fufficient preferuer,and mot+ graci- ous Father in laws Chrit+; this e cceffiue eflimation and loue of the world andworldly things,doth wcane our hearts and affe- ¿bons from God, and fixeth them vpon thefe vanities : for as our Sauiour bath taught vs, that which we efleetne our chiefe tauU.6.ai. treafitre, on that our hearts will be fixed & feated.It is true that carnali w'orldlings would faine reconcile theft two together, the loue ofthe world,and the loue ofGod,diuiding their harts betweene rhem,howfoeuerit be in very vnequal portions, fee - ing for euery dram of loue which they afford vnto God, they mot+ willingly yceld to the world a pound. But hereby they difcouer themfeluesto be but meere hypocrites, which make Tames 4.8. thew ofthat which is not in them intruth; and thofe double Hofea ro.a. minded and double barred men, of which the Scriptures (peak, l'lah= ILA. who hauing, as the Pfalmifl faith, an heart and a heart, one for God, and another for the world, one for the feruice of their Creator,and another for theTempter,are odious and abomina- ble vnto God :foras it is inonfirous in the fight ofmen, to be- hold one looking with one eye vp to hcauen, and with the o- ther eye downe vpon the earth ; fo is it no I eflè mont+rous in Gods fighr,to tee the heart divided, one part feruing him, and another the world and the Prince thereof. But let fut h know that the loueofGod,and the loue of theworld are not only di- uers,but flat contraries the one to the other, which cannot poi- fiblie in any great degree, continue together in the fame tub - caidulce /cìt ie &; but as the loue of God increafeth,the loue ofthe world a- chrifiur,ama- bateth; and as the loue ofthe world getteth flrength, the loue refcit.mundue ofGod is weakened and diwainifhed : and as the fame piece of ¡sterft,inasa- wax will not receiue at oncc,two prints ofdiuers fraies; but the morum fecula- putting in of the one, its the blotting out of the ocher; or if rrum,freperna through a flight impreflion, the latter do not quite do out the charitatismet firft, yet there isnodif tin&piEìure,butaconfu fed mingle man - ftserminare glewithout forme or fafltion; fo the print of Gods loue,and of a;ottpotefï:Gre- a gor. MoraLhb. the loue of the world,will not at once remainein the fame harr, cap.A. but the impreflion of the one blotteth out the other : or if there be an equall mixture ofthem both, it is an odious botch porch Matth 6 24. in Gods fight. To this purpofeour Sauiour faith, that n cannot ferne