Heywood - Houston-Packer Collection BV4510.A2 H49 1667

. 1 '0 '• fle(lrt-:-1reqfore.' I {on in that choice : on die one 1 lide there was futfering, ' on theother injoying, affliB:ion on th'~one hand, pleafures,on~he other, the de– f pi!~d people of I God were companions on one fide, r·uffling Ga-llant! inPhAraoh's Court on theother, yecon the one fide it was for a. fea{on, oti die other but for a feafoo, and that But, cafl: the (ea-le~ inhis choice: -thofe· were plea!ures, but treafures tnay prevail; the laft Mar.4.s,?. yet ~ not the le.1fl: -of Sacans_ alfaul~s of Chrifr; ·' no, gopd _Mo[es efteerned the ·reproach of Chrift greattr riches than the treafures of v.E– gJpt: the worfrof Cnrift is ~etter cbat1 the ,beft ot the World: the noble Marque(5 G~tleacim . Caracciolm, in imitation of hitn, being tern.: ) · pted.with large offers to depart from Zion to ., '· Ba!Jj/fm, refohitely replyed,. Let their rw;ney pe• • '\\.1 ,rijh ryith them th~t , ~ccount all the treafure.J of the , · World 'l'tJrth one houres communio'-' with Jef 1U Chri/J I if all the Mountains· were gold, the . , - Rock5 P~arles, and the whole World fiuft'ed ·with t_he fweetdl: deHghu .of the Sons of Meri, · .- ~- · - · ·and thefe offered ·to ·rbe·Clirifiian ro be his · ~ . pr,oper ·inheritance for ever, b~ would with an holy (corn trample upon them~ a;nd look · o11 them as not worth oneglance of his eye, . in compaii{on of one tafie of the love of CbrHr, and a grain ofJavi.ng grace in his ·_ Heaven-born foul : B,ut a .carna1 heart '-fees · . no fuch l;leauty ·inCbrit:f, wher-efore he{hodld · be fo defired, nor iS'-hc taken with the £ome– linds and excellency of grace, a fad yec live_ly et-nblen1e whereof we have in tht hope!ul y(ung Gentleman that bade fair for Heaven,_ yet

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