Of turning /rtm o-ur e'l!ill "DJ ayes. therefore the moft difficult. Is it ea fie robuild a Temple to the Lord, and to keep it cleane and ia re.paire :'feewhat p1inesSaint Pat~J toolee, i Cqr,9. the three la!l: verfes,Every m11n thatjlrivtth, istem– perlltt in~~,{/ things; there~re 1keepeunder my body, ~tnd dit hring it into [uhj-el1ion : heexprdfed it by what theydtdat the otympit~ng4mes, who were at . gteat paines and labours before to enable them, felves unto thofe exercifes. · To bring it to p1rticulars. . Is it not a hard thing ro keept wltch and ward .day aAd night againll a fpirituall enemy, to keepe :up the bankes, againfi the Sea of lufl:s continually . atfaulting, and breaking in ; ·to take up and to beare thedailyctotfewit-hout fl:o·oping, to c_arry the cup of profperity without fpilling, to dimbe rhe hilL ·0f g-ood duties-witlilout faiming-, to abftaine from che waters of pleafure, when we are mofl: thirfl:y, . and they at fuaad, to goeagaio!l: the crowd w ith~ m~ t [wearing-, to beas-aa Owlc amongfr men, and to he·4re tohe fb.4me (as irisfaid of~hrilt) whowmt · out 4nd fo!fored without the g11te, he bare rhe re· proach; and to doe all this continually~ - Thefeare noeafie things, and yet they mufi-be done; men in chis cafeare likeuntnrifr-s, who complaineof po– verty, and that they car:motthriv;e, andyet will. take no paines. The fluggard will not pull his hand , out of his bofom.~ ; and men are: lluggards inm:tt· l ters .of falvation. But to quicken you, . confider that this is the maine buG.ne!fe youcame into the 'world ro doe. And doe you thinke that alittle cafl: timefpent upon it will b_eenough ~- M attli~ I 1. , 13~- Ir
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