EpifileofS. Pa4l toTitate that God Both fo : whereas the rich andioore mute, God made them both : he accepteth not the perfon of the rich, nor concemnech the per- fon ofthe poore: andof the two , the broken foule is the delight of his eye. Why fhould then the gazing vpon any of there outward things, dazleor perifh any mans eye? feeing we ought to looke vponour felues and others asGod looketh. 2. When men waft them inpride, prodi- galitie,gaming, vncleannes, or any other vnchritlian courfe : for they are not Lordsofthé but ftewards,whichmull be called to a reckoning: which when we come to make vp, what comfort will it be to gifle in, as many candoe no other ? fo much weekly spent at the tauerne ; fomuch at cards and dice; fo much in the bowling dole or alley ; fo much in Tome one ruff more then needed ; fo much perhaps in compaffing my filthy.lufl,and euery of there draw deepe: and when the Lord (hall aslce, yea but howmuchvpon thepoore,vpon the Minitlry,vpon godly vies? oh here thou wall able to doe nothingat all. Oh wretched man , looke to thematter betime, thy feïfe would take no fuch bills of thy feruants, but thou wouldll turne them away: & canft thou look for any other but that the Lord (hould turne thee out ofhis doores? 3. When God calleth to forfakeal or part,yet neither indifpofition,nor indeed a man cloth fo: he that poffeffeth , mull be as ifhepofleffed not : Chri(ls Difciple mull forgoe all, the young man , ifhe will followChrill , mull fell ail, that is, be ready if God call him thereto: for beeing indifferent things, we mull in getting,keeping,and parting from them,fhew and carie our felues in- differently, learning with Paul in all things to be content: if God fupplie necefïaries,asking no more:for howfoeuer a Chrifliâ may vfeabundâce lawfully,if God glue it; yet fuchmull his contentment be with his pre- feat eflate,that hemaynot askmore then neceffaries;both becaufe there is an expreffecommandement againfi it,a.Tim.6.8,as alfo becaufe it is a fruit of infidelitie: and 3.though they be Gods blefling, yet are they not limplybleflìngs,that is,fuch as are alwaies fo in ncemfclues, and vntovs, for ché we couldnot aske toomany,or too much;but in chffelues at the bell,they are but indifferent; and to vs they mey become as well thornes and liìares,as well as helps,and furtherances; which may preuaile to re- duce our minds to fobriety in the wifhing,and fruition ofthem. The fourth fort of things indifferent, are recreations , in which the ñrll rule is broke, r. whenmen (pore hemfeiues with things not war- rantcd,or forbidden in the word. As Peeing all recreations ought tobe ofindifferent things, no man ought CO recreate himfelfe , i.either with holy things: or z. with vnholy and finnefull things. For the former: 1. the word of God in the Scriptures is holy as God himfelfe is ; and therefore it is a fearefuil linneto fell in the phrafes of Scriptures, and fo CHAP.I.2 }. 303 2 3 Ptepararione mentis faken'. Aman may not aske more wealth in pray- er then needt: fariotandwhy. 1 2 3 Luk.8.14, Recreations not vied in 1. Faith. Non ea bonum ledere cum fanEtis, Y to
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