i82 ' C it A P.2. 4nExpoft log -upon the fecond V& R.I 3. °tPet.ry. d Mat Lit. e r Thcf.i. vit. f AEìs 33.48. s Mat.9.8. h I Pet.r.q.. 'Iac.z.ç, 3 Are vigorous, and operatiue, not fufering to be idle and vnfruitfull in the knowledge of our Lord and Sauiour. By thefe we may make calling and eledtion lure to our feines ; and fo bee affured we {hall neuer fall, or fade of our hope of immortalitie : See 2. Pet.I.4,5,ad t z. What the good is to fruitionwhereof we are chofen, is noticed,falseatioa,that founds preferuation,or deliuerance: From what? if any ache; not fo much fromtuiferie,cr dan- ger temporall,though therein Gods chafen haue a fpecial- tie; T.Tim.4.8. as from thole that concerne our c fogies. As the Angel giuing notation of the name Iefiu to be impo- fed on the i lefah, explicates, from our d finnes, the guilt, raigne, punifhment eternall ofour finnes, from C thewrath to come: And which is allo implied, aduancenlent to a (late of bleffeclnefle and immortalitie, to f eternall life; the Wetted g Vifion andffruition of the glorious God -head, to h a crowne, no inheritance vncorruptiile, vndefiled, and that fadeth not away, re/erued in Heauen for vs. To this blelfed and glorious elate bath God chafen and ordei- ned vs. What now, if not to wealth, pleafùre, honour, high calling, the beatitude of men fenfuall and earthly minded? Yet if to be 1 rich in faith, heires ofthe Kingdome which he bath promifed, is not the preferment greater ? Should not this digefl pouertie, pain, abafure, all miferie earth can faflen on vs? Pieuií r-earthly ntïndednef e of fenfuall na- ture, how formes it at difpenfatio: s of prouidence; that in thefe tranfitorie things, worff men haue oft preferment before Gods children ? Thus calme that grumbling of flefh : it bath piealedGod:, goodnef e; for after -this lie to prepare good things for his children, which wicked fhare not in ; culls for the wicked,whrch his children tall not of: Thefe temporals Ile makes common to good and had, that neither the good things fhould over eagerly be defired, which euill Men are feene to enioy; nor euill things too cowardly declined, which heft men are moll preffed witht- ail.See riches, &c. r %ruedfork hurt to the owners,becom- ruing infiruments of iniuftice,_ feva,ell to enflame corrupti- on,
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