The Creature inbonc ageth. I 2 5 the abundance of all things, therefore ¡bait thou Jerve thine encmic j which the Lord Pall fend againft thee, in hunger, and in thirft, and in nakedneff", and in the want of all things ; and he (ball put a yoke of iron upon thy necke, untill he bath deli toyed thee. Thus man that I will not ferve the Lord with joy and gladneffe, with iincc- rity and fingleneffe, the Lord gives him over to ferve the creature with hunger and thirfr, with tormenting care and difiraaion, with much griefe and labour, in great flraights in the midit of his futficiency, the creature putting an iron yoke upon his neck, making him inch a wretched flave to to the world, i that he bath no power to eat of w,`,at be dot') poJ- fef : Qui pecunie fervit, & preJentibus compendibus cvfiringitur, er futurir paratur, faith Chry1 o tome. He that ferves moray, is bound with prefent,and prepared for future fetter sifo chain ed that he cannot come to God ; fo bowed downe, that he cannot look up to God ; God is not in all his thoughts, he is altogether a frranger to him. lîiftly, the creature is tranfient, a fervant that Changes 5, many Matters, it ebbes and flowes like the Sea, waxeth and Tran tort'. waneth like the Moon : There is ftedfaftnefse in Christ, k he k Heb. t 3. S. it the fame yeiferday, to day, and for ever : there is mutability in the creature, contrant onely in alteration ; this goes and comes like the Souldiers at the command of the Centurion ; like Jonab'; Gourd, that t came up over 7onah to be a fhadow' over his head, to deliver him from his griefe ; and Jonah was exceeding glad : But when the morning arofe, a Worrne' fmote the Gourd that it withered, and the Wind and Sunne did beat on Jonails head, that he fainted : The creature, like a gourd, is to day a fhadowto us, and we much reioyce ink to morrow it is withered, and we have much diíèombrt The joy of the creature doth ufhally turne to furrow, it nitters more griefe in the lofing then ever it gave joy in the! pofleffin; ; and hereupon Solomon difl'wad °_s man from thet creature ; ru Labour not (fah he) to be rich, wife from t': i : Awns' m Prov. %3.4. wifdome ; wilt thou fet thine eyes on that which it i o` ? for riches make them elves Witt fs they e away as an Ea:,ge towards heaven. t, yy` ay Sixtly, the creature is very fi.auduitn' ; Laban changed ja-i 6. robs wages ten times ; many are their changes i h9 ferve the Dece:tfuinefïe E creatwc .
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