The Crop of rßkOing. that love this We fo well , that you neglect thatwhich is to come , faith he , we love our lives as well as you , we are not weary of them, no more than you are, wee dcfire not to be uncloathcd , no, but we delire that im. mortality may bee fwallowed up of lifchow, fwallow- ed up r as we fee a rude draught in a pitture , fwal- lowed up with the pic`ure when it is perfeaed , as childhood is fwallowed up of man -hood, as the glim- mering light is fwallowed up of the perked light ; fo their immortality is fwallowed of life , that is, if there bee a fmall pooreglimpfe of comfort here , faith Paul, wee would not be rid of thefe, we would be con - tent to have thefe as well as you, onely we would have them fwallowed up of perfe &life, we would haue im. perfeâion fwallowcd up of perfeFion : And therefore Job faith, I will weite till my chAvge come . he faith not,till my deftrucion come, till my perifhingcome, or till my death come , but I will waite till my change come : and he that changeth, doth it for the better: Ifyou will take Chrift , you (hall have this immortality and life : perhaps you will fay , but I could be content to have this temporal] life continued: And haply,my brethren, if the Lord would make that promife, that hee would proclame to men, that they fhould have immortal] life here, it may be he (hall have more followers than now he hath, when he promifeth immortall life in heaven: but to take away that in a word I fay, it is a foolifh choyce,if you might have it : For what have you here Here the body is tormented with difeafes, the fpitit is wearied with vexation, and the flare is all:w feel with loffes and croffes ; evil' things wound us with f.orrow, and the good things wce heere, doe but infect our of feftions,
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