Of turning from our e"ViO 'llJayes. · 149 ' Ij~ and defpifcnone ofthem: with that light thou haft, examine every thing what evet'thon haft the lea{t doubt fearth it out to the fulJ. , This idle fpeech, this jollity and vanity of converefation bow little foever ' i~feemes> as dallianc,e.in thytho ~1ghts aQd eyes, over!yperformance ofduties. · Vfe that light further to get reafon againfi thy finne. This i_s to confider ·a mans wayes as Dtt. vid,did, to ponder the reafons. Let a man take paines witn his heart from ·day to day, and confider what reafonHhere are by which a mans heart may be taken o1ffromhis fin~as .againft unbwfullgaine, to thinke ic but as fiealing cufiome, whereby a man forfeits all the reft ; that what is unlawfullygot... ~eri, is as the coalethat was carried in by theEJgle intq,.her neft with a peece ofbroyled fldh, which ~onfumed hernefi, young, and her fdfe ; .and all treaties of infirmities, that _what is unlawfully gotten is as' a coale carried in by the Eagleinto her neft, and the fidh among the re!hoconlume all and thy nefi. Had not .vfhab better have . beenc without his Vineyard ~ if pleafure ; con– fide r how it is but for afeafon, and w~at bitter– neffe it will bring in the end·, and lofe the joy \vhich by farre exceeds it: ifmatter ofvaine*glory{ ~hat all thy paines taken is loft, for it will bee all' I rhy reward. · When th_ou haft ·done this,adde a third,nsmely, exerci{e,toovercome it : as Saint Pattl fayes to 'Ti~ mothy, ex!rcife thy felfe to godllneffi. Thinke of thefe things, I Tirn. 4• 15. if thy failing -be in good, accuftome thy felfe to the duty ; if -in bad, . 1 · difufe 3
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