270 Pecíouo fa* liques of it, which after the greatefi mortifi- cations remain, are to be mourned and groan- ed under as the heavieft burden in the world. 'What the 7ewifh fringes did typifie, that the Chriftians Faith operates , in keeping men from Peeking after their own heart ; but to go on, take fin not as meer fine, but in the drefs of fome apparent good ; let, it be grse:ls tTe eipcapléa, a weUbcirettmf}ancedISin, as a learned man takes that place, Heb. 12. 1, flowing in riches, or cowling in fenfual pleafures, or holding forth Crowns and Scepters, and all Mundane glory ; nay, if it were poflible, let it inveft it fell with a Creation, all the low - er World cannot make it eligible to Faith: Set down a World, if Faith fubftra6t but a God or a Soul, what will remain but infinite damage ? thole treafures, which glitter fo much to dark fenfe , are to Faith but poor rufty moth -eaten things ; that which is fub- fiance to the World, is to Faith but a íhadow, an apparition, a thing that is not, a mark too low for an Immortal Soul to fly at : Thefe things at prefent and in the Now- World feem fomething ; but if Faith look through the World unto the univerfal con- flagration, and beyond it to the World to come, what will they lignifie ? Are they able to furvive thole Taft flames, or purchafe any thing in the World to come ? Surely Oft no- thing ; except only fo much thereof as is ex- changed thither in Charity and good Works : to Faith the whole inventory of them is but
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