Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

The Epilile Dedicatorie. (hewing that the wages ofiniquitie whereby he inticeth men to leaue Gods ftandard, and to fight vnder his colours, is but bate and counterfeite coine, being examined by the touchflone of Gods truth, and therefore not to be receiued of a Chriftian for good pay ; much lefíe to be preferred before that crowne of vi6torie, euerlafting glorie, and thofe all- fuficient treafures of our heauen- ly kingdome, which God promifeth to all thole who fight his battailes, and valiantly ouercome. Neither did I thinke that I could more profitably fpend my ftudies in any o- ther argument, efpeciallie in thefe times, wherein the loue ofthe world fo greatly pre - uaileth,that with Demas men daily fall from the profelion of Gods truth, and imbrace the world,hauing onely fo much loue ofre- ligion, as the loue of the world worketh in them; and either not feruing God at all, or only that they may ferue their owne turnes, in worldly and carnali refpeCts. For if by plaine teftimonies of holy Scriptures, and by effeduall reafons (as it were a proclama. tion Pent from the great king of heauen and earth) 1 could crie downe the high rates and a 3 prices