of the Rich Ingn,andLamm. his poore halter t Adam , inhis innocencie, though naked, needed no cower; his nakednes being then fo full ofgIori ous brightnes,or astheSunne in hisftrength : our appareil, the braueli we ruton, wouldhaue as much obfcured it, at a dance cloud no.o., cloth thecomfortable, Sunne : but euer fince I'nne intred ; all is contrarie :and what thould haue beetleour glory , is now become our flume. Therefore to make fo muchofour fhame , and with fo great neglec`l: of betterduties to our neighbour and the poore, fo to trimme it, what is it but an int; llerable andcruel I vanitie e Againe, who would glory of the ragges that arewrapped about his wounds ? Ourattire, what cloth it but hide, in our bodies, thewoundofou f Il : andwhat glorying thenofour pou deli couer, there being no better matter in it ? The world, while it was yong; was Pimple and plaine ; now in the do* tageofit, it is clothed with double,not garmentsonly, but hearts, Prors.3 t.2 s. Ourfathers kept fheepe,Gen.43.2.we,their children,fcorne to were the wooll : the garments that God made to fldam and tohis wite,,ourfirli parents,were coates ofskinnes.Gen® 3.2i. Chri(is garment was plain, and fimple without feame.Ioh. t 9.2 3.andmany,whom theworldwas not word thy of,wandred about in theepe-skinnes. Hebr. t r .37.that is,in leather coates,being deliitute,affiieted,and tormented: which I fpeakenot,to bind all,rich and poore, toone kind ofapparell without difference ; or as if I thought that rich men might not put on more rich attire then other men : but iufily to reprove by theword sand by filch examples of holy men,all fond affeetatioM and lightnes t his way. Jacob knew his fonnescoatefo foone as his ether fonnes letpbs brethren,brcughtit to . 3 3 him. Geri.; 7.3 .He knew that it was the f,mc coate which he made to his fonne lo.;ph. The coates offantafiicall men and women of the faf rion,at this day,cannot be knowne to be coatesof Gods making : for, bring them to God, and the Poppets in them ; andwill he fey T'hefe are my fonne s coates : or. may net the diuell ra+ Cher fay; Thde are my fonnes ; for I, made them there- 33 4 coates ;
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