Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

Reafime mooing vt to fghtagain the world. 23 iinne and death. If wee make the world ourbedfellow, well may our corrupt flcfh thinke our bed loft as done, and fweete as rofes,and fo caufe vsto fleepe a dead fleepe in car- nall fecuritie; yet in truth like filthie fwine wee wallow in the linke and puddle of 6nne and wickednefhe; and if cute wee awake out of this fpirituall lethargic, we Thall fee our eflatemoll defperate and damnablc,till we be Centred from this companion,and cleanfed from that filthineffe, where- with hee hash defiled vs. So that wee may conclude where the holy Pfalmillbcgan,Pfal.t.r.Blefedse theman that doth not wa1ke in the counted of the wicked,ner ffand in the may of frn- ners,norftinthefeate of fcornere. Fiftly, if wee will be the feruants and Difciples cif Iefus 4.See1.7, Chrifl, we muff of neceffitie make warre againfl the world, We mu/t fight for it will haue no peace with vs, but as Toone as it difcer- againfltthe neth that we are chofen by him,it will purfue vs with mor- morldifwe Mil tall hatred ; fo that wee mutt fight againfl it,or it will fight pleChrif s difa< againfl vs, and fo defiroy vs for want of refiflance ; vnleflè wee can be content to renounce the feruice ofour Sauiour, and yeeld our felues as flaues to the world, finne and Satan, who will reward vs for the prefent with the wages of vani- tie,and afterwardswith the wages of death. And this argu- ment the Apoflle `Peter vfeth,t.Pet.z. t t. Deare y beloved, I r.Pet.z.rr. befeech you atJfrangers and pilgrimes,abflaine from flefb y lIafl r, which fight againfl thefoule. Sixtly,if we doe not fight againfl the world,but fuffer our g.Sea. 8. felues to be againe defiled with worldly lulls, after that Webreeme a- Chrifl bathfhcd his blood to wafh and cleanfe vs,wee fhall pofatt if vve fall into a fearefull relapfe, and make our latter end much thgevvorld atasR worfe then ontbeginning; we íhall like ftlthiedogges re- turne to our vomit, and with the tow that was wafhed, to our wallowing in thetrrire.And this the Apof #le Peterplain- lyafñrmcth,aPet.z.zo. For if they (faith he) after they haue z.Pet.z.zo.ar. efcaped from thefrlthineffeoftheworld ,through the knowledge of the Lord, and of the Saviour Iefus (brig, are yet tangled therein againe,and ouercome,the latter ie werfewith them then the beginning. 22. For it had been better for them,not tohatee bnowaethe way of rigbteoufneffe, then after they bane known C 4 át,