..s T20 The Saints Spirituali firength. ¿ions are after the things of the world, and how you may grow flrong in that , that you cannot minde heavenly things. Againe, you hinder the growth of the inward man, when you fet your of fe ¿ions upon bale and vile things, this hindereth the growth of the inward man , this man is a weak man in grace;as for example,a man that bath money to bellow at Market,if when he (hall come there, he (hall bellow it on babies, and not on the things that he went to buy , this man were a feo- lifh man, efpccially he knowing , that he (hall be called to an account for it,ho.w he hath laid it cut: even thus and much more fóolifh are Men , when they fpend their time on their pleafures and lull, . which are bale things, and not on flrengthning of the inward man , they befoole themfelves : and this is that which the Wife man faith,. that there is a price in the hand of a Poole, but hee hath no heart. When men negle¿ the 11rengthning of the inward man,they forfake a great price,thatwould enrich them : but becaufe they want knowledge, becaufe they are weak in the inward man they are not able to judge in the inward man of fpi- rituall things: therefore never bragge of your, flrength , except it be the flrength of the inward 'man, and take heed of neglc¿ing the time. Paul would hive the gathering for the Poore to be be- fore he came,that that might not hinder him from flrengthning of the inward man, though that was .a holy werke: It was a good fpcech of one,.w to' At ter that he had (pent much time to writing about Cön: rö
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