Thesoda. t uall calling toChrift.. besaufe he fcornes tobee fubjcc. It is faìd ofthe thorny ground, that the thorns did choake it, the Sunne did not parch it, bee couldhave gone to aprifon, or to a fake, but when profperity, and honour, andpleafure came, they choake all that hee had, that fobee bath not a word to fay c thus it was with Demos; I doubt not but hehad many a formewith Paul, and (haredwith Paul in alll is troubles ; but when hee had gotten good means,he leftPaul; & hecaufé he could not attend chofe, and gcewith Paul coo, therefore hee left Paul,for he thought with himfelfe thatPaul would not let him goe on fo, and therefore hee leaves him and the Gofpell and all. Now before I goe any further, givemee leave to anfwer two quefions. Firft, why will profperity take off this man from the profafien ofthe truth, whenyou told us befóre that hee would lofe his life in the de- fence ofthe truth ? ifhehad diedheehad loft all his pleafure, and cafe, and all 1 why then doch profperity take of his heart, when trouble and perfecutionwouldnot doe it? To this I answer, the caufewhy thefe prevai- lednot before, it wasbecaufe they were not pre- rent with him, hee knew not the fvweetneffe of there, and haply he hadno hope to attaine them; but now hee injoyes them, and now hee is taken afide by them ; haply his heart was the fame be- fore, that itis now, but hehad not theoccafions that nowhebath. Lookass it is withan inferi ur 487 ,,uefti Anf.
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