Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

That we are citizens of heaaen. 82; lydelights : but railing them vp according is the height of our hopes, let vs aime at no leffe then crownesand king - domes, and thefe not mornentanie,and of this world,feeing they are vaine and oflittle worth; but thole which are moll glorious and eternall in the world to come: for if it be a bate and vnfeemeiy thing, that a Princes fon, for a trifling naine, fhould fpend his time and flrength in feruile and lîauifh a6tions,feruing hogs, and playing the skull, or running on arrands at the command of thole whom he fhould com- mand; how much more vncomelyand abie&ly bale is it for vs, who are (as the Apollle fpeaketh) the a generation of = AE2.17.2.8. God, his b founes and children in Iefus Chrifl, yea hciresb Cohn t.rz. ofGod, and coheires with Chrifl, that we fhould fpend our c Rotn.8.17. precious time in Peeking after contemptible vanities, and be at the feruice and beckeofinne and Satan, for the bale hire ofthefe worldly trifles; neuer thinking of our fpirituall preferments, and gloriouspriuiledges, but letting all to Pale for the prefent fruition ofthefe momentanie toyes ? Hereto- fore we were (as the Apoflleteacheth vs) dead in treifiaffee Ephef.7.1.2.3. and (Lines, and being in this condition it was futable vnto it, 4.5.6, that we fhould be buried in the world, hauing our hearts burthened and oppreffed with the cares of this life,and with the vnfupportab lewaightoftheleearthly things; but now we are reuiued with the blood of Chrifl, and quickned with his death, yea by vertue of his refurre&ion, God hath railed vs vp together with him,and bath in Iefus Chrtff made vs fit to- get her in heauenly places, to /bew vnto ages to come the excee- ding riches of his grace and therefore as the Apoflle exhor- teth .-°'°"`3 t : vs, l f hbe be rifen with Chrift,let vs [ek`e thole thingsìbhicb are aboae, lbhere Chrifi ftteth on the right hand of God; and fee earafellions on things which are aboue,and not on things lbhich are on theearth. For if it were a fuflicient reafon to moue cob to neglci his Ituffe in the land ofCanaan, becaufe`Pha- raoh promi fed the bell things of Egypt when he came into his kiugdome; how much more should it be auaileable to perfwade vs, vnto the contëpt ofthefe worldly & worthlelfe vanities, fceing we haue the affuredpromife ofGod himfelfi Genef.4p ao, that we Thal enioy the bell thi,{igs of his heauenly kingdome G g g 4 when