Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

The EpiflleDedicatoriu. ers and feru ants, and that among{t other e- nemies, they would valiantly fighe his bate tailes,againft the world,and worldly lu{}s: who notwithftanding their oath and pro- mile , either.yeeld fubie&ion to the world upon the offer of earthly profits, pleafures, and preferments, or Rand in a cold neutra.. litie, defìring to doe feruice to the world and God too;but without all indifferencie, feting hehath onely the feruice oftheir lips, and fotne outwarddeu.otions,meerely com- plemental], and ceremoniall; whereas the other maker bath the feruice oftheir hearts, and all their care, labours,andpainefull in- deauours irnploied about himi And when as I faw the glorious trophees ofthe worlds vi'oriesereded,'not onely in euerycorner of the common - wealth but euen in the tem- pie and 'church of God; to his great difho- nour, and the difgracc of his truereligion; Ithought t could not fpend m5' ítrength in a better cluarrell,then iri oppofingagainft this enemie of our faluation; to the end, that might abate his preuailing forces, and wea- ken the very finewes of his ftrength, where- in, bee molt gloricth and triumpheth by chewing,