251 THE DE S I R E OF THE SAINTS AFTER IMMORTAL GLORY. SERMON XXI. tCor.s.s. For in this le do groanearnefiy, defiring to be cloathedupon, pithour houfe tthich is from heaven. Hen I read there words, I am in a great doubt, wliether I thould rather admire the excellency of the temper ofthefe Saints, or deplore thevilenefs ofours ; fo celeftial the one, fo terrefhial the other; fo noble the one, fo ignoble the other ; fo magnanimous theone, fo abjeft the other. Thefe Saints they did duly confider, that our life it is but a Pilgri- mage er f fh us for a while; that it is awarfareall thingswithin us, without us, our enemies ; that this body is but a Tabernacle, a Tent, a Cottage , an earthen v ffel, a Goxrd, the fcabbard, the prifon of the foul more brittle than Glafs, decaying, mouldring ofit Pelf, though it be preferved from eted- nal injuries of air or weather; they law thevanity, the vacuity, the emptinefs of Kkx the
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