The Epifile Dedicatory. fiery chariot, it bath carried the foule to heaven : "fever you mean to fee and enjoy the God of love,labour for this love. Fiftly, be very ferious, fludious, circumfpe &, and care - full in all your waIkings; ponder the path of your feeet, `ike carefull travellers ; confider and weigh all your do- ings,let all your waves of the heart within, and work with - our,be ordered arighr,according to the rule of Gods word; every motion of the foul is a flop to life or a flop to death; a Il(p towards heaven or towards hell : Mans labour and fervice is temporall, his wages and recompence eternal' therefore as Zeuxes, that famous Limt;er, being deman- ded why he was fo exa& and ferious, fo long, fo careful' and curious in his wor kmanip, anfwered, Diu pino, quia eternitati pingo; I am long in painting, becaufe T paint unto eternity., .Ve all paint unto eternity ; every one of our aftions tends to an eternity of joyes or forrows ; all our temporal' a&lions are as feeds of eternity Towne by us : a temporal feed an eternall harveft : we fpeak,we hear, we write, we read, we pray, we ring, we confer, we worke, we rhinke unto eternity : how exa& and ferious fhould we he in our fhort walking, the end whereofis eternal' ! Yi- ilanti cura (faith Gregory) per cunEra opera intentio nobie oenfanda eg, ut nihil temporale in hie Tux agit appetat, fed total?, fe infoliditate eeternitatù f fat : The intention is thorough all. our works to be weighed with vigilant care, . -hat in the things which ir doth,it may delire nothing tem- poral!, but wholly fallen it felfe on that which is eternal : '?e that walkes not circumfpealy deprives- himfelfe of an eternity of felicity, and e calls himfelfe into an eternity of mifery b better live flri&ly fora time, then live miferably for ever .nay, be allured that even for the prefent, there is more comfort in one dayes flriF,t walking with God, then In
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