22 r ECCI6f. 8.r 4. : Ma1.3.tg. C H A P.Y. An Expofai jai; vpon the fecand V a E.5. Truth is, its one end why the Lord thus orders the flare of this world ; thereby to nourifh in vs perfwafion of a Judgement, hope and delire of a life to come. Lord how lye we flicking at the earth, longer then God is pleafed to remember vs with his Rods ? And fay of Earth, as Peter of his little heauen,bonumejieffe Inc : yea more then Peter, faciaanus 7abernacula ; here let vs pitch our manfen. Not onely lefhurun, when he was full, wantonly kicked with his hcele : but ledidiah growes lafciuious,through abundance of peace. In all thingsl admire the wifedome of Prouidence. In nothing more, then in Gods fo ordering the flare of his earth -worme Children, that in nothing they finde perfect tranquilitie on elrth : I thinke that they may fay as hee, Here is not our Ref. Betides the many euils they are here fubieEt vnto ; who can fhew me the good of which he may fay, Its meum ? Knowledge mixt with Ignorance; farre off I am fure,from the beatilcall vifion : faith with doubt - ings, peace with trouble, and no leflë then trouble of Con- fcience. Wherefore all this ? but ro nourifh in vs perfwa- fion, to euidence there is a future Judgement; a life afterthis,wherein we expet the blefl'ednefre which hands in fruition of God ; the Crowne of Righteoufnefe, which godbath promifed to all them th.zt loue his appearing. Yet would God our Earthly- mindedneffe made vs not too murmuring,and quarelfome at this whelefome wife - dome of God. leremie holds the Conclufion ; q God is righteous: yet prefumes to expoflulate. Dauid confefherh he waded fo farre in the Quueflion, that his r foot f eps had welnighflipt. Salomon fhould haue had more wit,yet flicks not to call it vanitie.We in our finie grow halfe towards Atheifis, and flicke not to fay, its t vain to fern god : fo hue generally,wallowing in euill,fcarfely befprinkling our felues with goodneffe, as if we thought, there is neither God nor Diuell, Heauen nor Hell, Iudgement nor Lifc to come after this. Gods wifedome in this difpenfation of outward things holds me with wonder : his condefcenfus; humbling 1n m felfe
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