----------------------------~--~~------ VPRIGHTNES. Nowwewill brieflymakefomevfe ofit, and the vfcis fhall be but thefetwo; according to this fimilitude,& the agreement ofthis walking with , a Chrill:ian life. . ' Ifa Chrifiian life, beof this nature, that it is Vfe 1. like a walking in a Journey, that every ad: isa I Thebe?dof . . . our emgm fiep, then lt {hould fiure vs vp to confider fen. 1the world is ~ oufly, what abufi'neswe haue in qand, to confi- l ~o goea ,der for what purpofe we came into the world, Jouraey. namely, to go aJourney~not to fitfHll, not to be idle,we are to travaile a part of this Iou~·ney. .everyday; and therefore the .firfl: thing we are · todo, is tochoofearightway! you mufi know · therefore,that there are many rhoufands(it is the . c·ommoncondition ofmen inthe Church) that ~· thinke they are in a right way, .and -fo go ,on , in it without examination whereas indeed every man by narureis fet ina wrong way as ·foone as · he comes intotheworld, whereinhe travaileth, . away, that leads to defirufrion; fo that; tiil a man beginne to fee his error, ti11 he beginne to . comeferioufl:y ~ to confider, this is not the way I ' fhou-Jd follow, and to choofeacontrary, he tra– vailesnottowardhcaven:; .nomanis·incurf.ti; as · wefay,no" man is inthis Iourney tillthen: D av1d = [ayth,h'echoftthe '1'-'~J of Gods-Commrmde'mentJ.·-. There roufl he achoice: and this-mufi be vpon -.· fpeciatt~nfideradon,forno·man hath thiswith-:. out ch'oice:nowin choice there is notonely a ra- . kinga.thing intoconfiJerati6(whieh is naturally but theq aman isfaid to chufe,\_Vhen he.pitcheth', v-pon'it,whenhis~ refotudo-nisJixed,when hede~ ·. termines Everymanby nature,ina wroog~ay. ·, l . ,I
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