in Heavenly things. 9 left earth fhould rob heaven, and his outward ,enjoyments pre judice his heavenly intereffehe eats in feare, works in feare, re- joyceth in his abundance with feare : as lob fantztified his chil- dren by offering a facrifice , out of a feare left they had finned; fo the Chriflian is continually fandifying his earthly enjoy- ments by prayer, that fo he may be delivered from the fnare of them. Thirdly, the Chriflian is heavenly in his keeping of earthly 3. things. The fame heavenly Lawwhich he went by in getting, he obferves in holding them. As he dares not fay he will be rich and honourable in the world, but ifGod will ; fo neither that he will hold what he bath, he only keeps them while his heavenly Father calls for them that at firft gave them : If God will continue them to him, and entaile them on his paflerity too, he bleffeth God, and fo he defires to do alfo when he takes them away. Indeed Gods, meaning in the great things of this world, which fometimes he throwes in upon theSaints, is chiefly to give them the greater advantage ofexprelling their love to him, in denying them for his fake. God never intended by that ftrange Providence, in bringingMofeJ to Fharaho's Court, to fettle him there in worldly pomp and grandure, (a carnal heart indeed wouldhave expounded Providence, and ia;pcacte-d- it as a faire occafion put into his hands byGod to have advanced himfelf in- to the throne, (which fame fay he might in time have done,) but as an opportunity to make his faith and felt-denial :more emi- nently confpicuous in throwing all Oleic at his heels, for which he bath fo honourable a remembrance among the Lords Wor- thies, Het 11.24, 25. And truly a gracious foule reckons he cannot make fo much of his worldly interefts any other way, as by offering them up for Chrifts fake ; however that Traitour thought c_Maries ointment might have been carried to a better market, yet no doubt that good woman her felf was only trou- bled,that (he had notone more precious to poure on her dearSa- viours head..This makes theChriftian ever to hold the facrificing knife at the throat of his worldly enjoyments, ready tooffee them up when God calls ; over-board they (hall go, rather then hazard a wrack to faith or a good confcience ; he fought them in the fail place, and therefore he will part with them in the firft. Nothotbwill hazard theKings anger, (which at laft colt him his life,),;
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