pletíauo ,faith. ?great cheat; the Riches are not the true ones; the Gold is not that tried in the fire; the Land doth not lie in the Country which Faith feeks after ; there is nothing in them to feed or cloth, or enrich the inward man; and to ha- zard a God or a Soul for them, muff needs be an infinite lofs. And what are the pleafures of this World to :Faith ?, In carnal Sins, they are but the titillations of fenfe, in which the Rational faculties, were they not Spiritually incarnate and become flefh, would have no touch of delight : In Spiritual Sins, they are but the falfe gulls cf a vitiated Reafon and Will, which if made right by Faith, find no congruity but in what is true and good, nei- ther of which can be in a Sin : In both, mo- Tmentany as they are, they perijh in the nfing,and die in the embraces; like the dead Son of the Emperour Bafilitm Macedo, who being Magi- cally prefented to his Father as alive, after a few touches and doting glances,difappeared ; fo they go off, only they leave a fling and a worm behind them in Confcience; and the poor Voluptary, without repentance, muff lie down in eternal forrow, a thought whereof is enough to imbitter all their fweetnefs And are Mundane glories any better in Faiths account ? Honour is but a blaft, a little popu- lar air ; Monarchies have their periods ; Hi- flory gives us a profped of their vanity,; and much more Faith, which tranflates the Soul into the everlafling Kingdom, and from thence looks on the Empires of the World as 2y;.
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