Fenner - Houston-Packer Collection BX5037 .F46 1651

A Treat Je of the A(fec`iioaas. incarnate, that are never weary with fwearing, and lying, and playing, and company - keeping. I fay, thole men are all mongers : for if a man be a man, and he be not a monfler, 1 he will be cloyed and wearied with his waies. They are bad enough that the Prophet does (peak of, I am lure they were curled wretches, yet they were not fuch damned wretches as never to be weary with their fins ; they have wearied themfelves to commit iniquity, fer. 9.5. They were-weary 1 with finning, and cloyed with their waies, and yet they would on : on they went, but it feems they were not quite mongers to go on and never be wearied, -there is nothing in this life thou can(l fet thine affections upon, but it will weary and cloy thine affedions, and therefore without¡ doubt they are not the true objects of thine affedions. What bate Proverbs have the wicked,when they come from their fports?fometimes ye Thal hear them fay,I am as weary as a dog ; when the drunkard bath barreld himfelf with his liquor, he is as lick as a dog otherwhiles, as we fay; fuch filthy- mouthed fpeeches we have, which thew they are cloyed now and then with thefe things ; as the Poet (ayes Hor.Ep.14 of the Horfe and the Oxe, Optat ephippia Boa pier, optat a- rare caballoU, the lazie Oxe that is toyling at the Plough, he is weary with it, he could wifh he were ufed like a Horfe to the (addle, that would be leffe wearifonie he thinks then`. the Plough; the Horfe that is toyled with its riding, O. 1 he is weary with it, he could with he were ufed to the yoke, that would be a far eafaer life. Thus mens waies do weary and cloy their affections : the proud Minion is wearied and cloyed with fuch as odde fafhion, O fhe mutt have ano- ther; the gameller is wearied with fuch ä kinde of (port; he mutt have another ; the delicate palate is cloyed with filch ' tailed meats; it mutt -have others Certainly thine ate dliotis are wrong fet, when they are apt to be cloyed on this man- ner. O. therefore fet thine affedions on God, diete thouíi' (halt never be cloyed. Ì know a man may fet his affeetigns to Godward, and be weary, but thenthey are not ;i i t let When

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