.!4-o---.,.-----T-b:-e--:cb-iefi~e-=-:ft-of-=-te-n-th:-ou-:ifa;-n-d,-- Sa a .XV. right wits who refufe a Husband that is noble _Simih. for birth,rich for cfiate,mightyforpower,abun– dant in kindneffeand love it felfe, every wayex– cellent '! and take a bafe, ignoble,beggerly per– fon, this is the choice of the world. God comPfall•. plaines,I{rt~el woNlJnoneifme,&c. What fhal we judge therefore of thofe that will none of Cbrift when he wooes and fues them, but preferre with · Efou a mdfe of pottage before their cternall birthright;with ..Jdt~manapplebefore Paradice; and with Iud,a thirty pi~ces of filver before Chrift himfelfe: This is the £late of many men. what.it u ta he To !Je fi'JArrieJ tl chrijf u ~~fAke himfir 411 husb4ntl, WJarrteJ ttJ L l d l '- • . ll h. N h c/Jrifl. tl ue ru e vy ,lmtn 4 t tngs. oww en we prefer bafe commodities and contentments before peace of confcience, and the enjoying of his · love ; what is it, but for pelfe and commodity, thirtypieces of 6lver (perhaps for fixpence, a thingofnothing)to refufe Ch.tifi ; y~t this is the conditionof.bafeworldlings that live by fenfe and not by faith. So then as i.t ferves to comfort thofe that havemade a true choice,fo it fcrves to lbew the madnelfe and foliy of all others,whiah one day will fede their hearts full of honour and confufion, and their faces of fhame, whea they fhall thinke what bath Chrift made fuch fute,tomykeart to win my love~ bath he ordai– ned a Mineftery for to bring mein ~ made fuch brge promifes, is hefoexcellent ! and was this difcevered to me,andyet would I none of him!' what did I chofe t! and what did I leave ~ I left Chrift with all his riches, and mad·e choiceof the\ 5----------------------------------------------'
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