348 , A New Creature, what. Ss a.III his wealth : N.)w'Religioi comes,and that makes him low, and let him be glad of it ; Why What reafon path a man to h_ glad of it Indeed.if wealth were a thing of moment, it were another matter, but hee was. deceived. Riches are but as the flower of graffe. A wife man lookes on Riches as flowers of the Garden, which Children, and the we akeft doe much magnifie. Indeed, if they were of great moment, he loft by it, bur, as fames faith, They are but ess flowers of the graffe, worth little For the Luft of the flefh; that is another thing whereby this old man is Ceene. A man lookes on our. ward pleafures or delights, as able to give f atisfaetion, and as the greateft delights in the world, lec his judge- ment be rehified,he looker upon them as Enemies that fight againft the Coule, as the works of darkneffe which hee abhorres, and fo hee comes to Lots difpofition, Whop righteous foule ma vexed to fie the feltbinefe of the Sodomites : When his judgement is right, he looks on them as bare and vile things, as Enemies unto his foule, that will be his deftruhion. For the Pride of life : Man looks on outward things as the onely excellencies, which makes him admire them fo, but when his judgement is once reified, he lookes upon them as the Apoftle doth, who accoun. ted them but empty things, as bubbles blowne up by boyes. To conclude, when the judgement is reEtified, in Read of Errour and deceit which is the Root of the old man, whence comes three three great lulls (which are the maine,and from which all the reft will follow) then the lulls re diffolved, and the new man comes from truth,
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