I· . . 'IiJe Eterniq~ of Goo. . . 1 11S3 fpend it ? ~ I Cor. ·9. 2 ) • · EVery one th4t .Jlrt'Ceth !Cor.,, sf. for the ma.fiery if temperttte; now they•dpe tt· to ob..1 tlliltt a ·corruptible crow,n~, ~u-t·wee. anJn'corruptible. Thtis·lie ·reafoneth, 1f;men·tha~·ufe tiiefe·Ot)mpi- "n games, if they will endme to muchhar<tiliip and ab fi:inence, accuftame theirbodies to·heat and-cold fdr the racebe(orb-_h<!ud,and d>0earll but .for a -crowne, ·that will laA:bt.'t.t. .this 4ife at ·the moft.; and {hall not wee (faith he) ,f6r an incor- ·ruptible -crewne ? Beloved ; ILwee wonld tit downebut one halfe houre,and celnkder feriouf.. -lywhat eternity is, it .would mal{~ us tone-ghi.a all temporary things,-whithnqwwearefoaffe- . u .ed with. It -is eternity, my ·Brethten, and the . .confider~tion -of -i r, .that doth fet- ·an high price t:Jpon grace, and gives .the juft weight to finne, ·but it makes all other things cxceedioglight;for this -isa true mle; that untill we come to appre– -hend finne, as-thegreateft evill in theworld, wee .a.re not .truely l_H~mhled 5 and it is ~ternit.y that make$.it-to b~fg;-for ,.(a! was.fai<;l before)- eter– nitie makes anevill infinitel}' t,he grea~er. Now if y.ou look.e upQn all other 'things, ·as-honour, and 4ifgrace, and the favour ofmen, they reach _but a littleway, but tothe ~ndofthis life, at the utmoft; butifyou looke to thereacbofgrac:e and fin, tb~y r.each (as it were) a thoufand thou– fand milesbeyond it. Grace teacbeth toeterni– ~ie, :and ftnne~eaches to cternitie, and therefore thefearethe~ ~hings that a maq {hOLdd be bufied · about. What a fhame is it for a man to grieve for fome outward croffes, and to rejoyce muclt M~ for • , '-'.: '~
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