Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

694 That worldly things Withdraw men from gods ferrite. whereas vnto vertue there is but one way, and that hard to bee found, and painfull in trauelling ; men find many waies, to get money, ¡Ting all meanes both good and eu:ill, that they cZhryfo ^..in may hereby obtaine their defire .Soanother faith,that they who. Mat.6.Ho- let their affedlions upon earthly treafures,and haue their hearts tied to the world with this golden chaine, they can neuer fo much as thinke ofthe riches of Gods kingdome, their minds are fo taken vp with thinking on their money, vfttrie, gaine, bargaining,and titch other bufncffes. And if any man per - fuade them to alter their couetous coutres, and to lay vp their treafures, not in earth, but in heauen, becaufe weecannot haue Luk,t6.i4.. a treafurie in both paces, nor ferne God ifwe ferue mammon, they are readyto laugh them to fco; ne, asthe Pharifies did our Sauiour Chrifl; and euen to pal-cone them to the death,ifthey too carnally infili in this argument. The like allo might bee laid of worldly pleafiires, which being onerualued, and too much affedied, make men in comparifon of them, tonegle6t theioyintheholy Ghofl,yea the ioyes of heauen, and.thofe furpafiìng preafures which are at Gods right hand for euer- more, And as the hog feeding vponthe mall and fwill whichhe naturallyloueth, and wallowing himfelfe in the fibbie mire,: will not exchange his grofle feed, for the daintiefl meats, nor his lothfomc lodging for a bed oldowne: fo they being .wed- ded to thefe fenfuall and carnali delights, which are bafeand brutifh,are ready in comparifon of them to let light by, and contemne the fpirituall ioyes of a chrillian, and the eternall ioyes of heauen, as though they were not worth the feeking and defining. And therefore feting the loue of God and thefe heauenlyexcellencies, and the loue of the world, and worldly vanities will not (land together, but bee who in his heart and affeólion imbraceththe one, cloth prefently neglevtl and con- temne the other,let this alto ferne as an effeelualreafon to wean our hearts from theft earthly tries, Peeing if we glue them en. tertainment, and vouchfafe them too high a feat in the temple of our hearts, they will inflantly thrufl out the loue of the I:ord,and his inual Liable benefits ; and by our negledland con- tempt:make.. vs to lofe thofe incomparable treafures, for this earthly trail, andworthlcffe trifles. srl1.. La(l ly,, theworld& worldly vanities ,being too highly eflce- Ti at aorldty to