GHAI>.2.I2. t íiCotmmentarie vponthe 462 wealth,authoritymarriages; no not more holy things when they feeme rodraw nearer to God ; not their hearing ,rczdíng, receiuingSacra- ments, cooferençe,&c. but vie all thefe without God: fo as their cal- lings make themworldly or worfe ; their meat dull or wanton; their ap- parel! proud ; their wealth hard hearted ;their buildings high minded; their marriage vncleane:and the holy things they foprofanely handle, make them either defpifers or fcoffets, or profane, or vnprofirable; but all is turned to finnevnto them. They fee a generali gouernement and prouidence ofthings, and fo ncg:e& particular prayer; or are without experienceofthebenefit ofpraicr,andofGods loue in anfwering, and fo they cell not vpon God. 3 3. In running on in a defperate fecuritie,neuer calling his waies to re- membrance; adeath it is vnrohim, to looke intohis reckonings, faine would he forger God ; whence it is that in the flingof confcience, the wicked man calleth for his companie, mu(icke, games, and merriments, as though thefe could cure filch awound,whicharebut a cold water to the dropfie. Such vngodly ones the Prophet taxe:h in his time, Ihear!¿- ned, and heard ( faith the Lord) none fp4e aright , none repented of his wickedwaits , nomay fold ,what hater Idone, euery one tin-meth to bis race au thehorfeto thebattaile. All thefe are the vile fruitsofvn;odlineífe, the which grace teacheth to denie : the which where they appeare (as they are there mod,where they are lead scene and refifled)fuch aperfon may cuidcntly fee how littlegood he bath learned by the Gofpel; that notwithflanding all the cleareneffeand euidence of it , he bath not en- tied the praEìife of the fird precept ofit , which is the denial' ofvngodly- nefe. The fecond thing which we mull learne todenk, ifwe will haue our parts in the do&rine ofgrace, is worldly lulls. Rightly ioyncd to the for- mer, r.Becaufe they are fo nearea kin to vngodlineffe, as vntill thefe fupposters be remooued, it cannot but (land in full flreRgth. For thefe lullsdraw downe the heart and affe6tions from the God of heauen , and fee them on Tome things below,whichbecome their gods. Thus the co- uctous man is an idolater, his wealth is his god : the Epicure maketh his bellie his God : the voluptuous perfon, is a louer of his plcafure more then ofGod; and the men ofthe world, haue the god of the world for theirgod.z.Thefe are added as atouchflone ofthe former : for ifaman once beginne todenievngodlines,thefe lulls will downeof themfclues. IfGod be once become theportion oft man, thefe lulls may fometime tickle him, but cannot gaine the heart to theferuice ofthem, as before. Neithercan any man thtnke that he bath denied vngodlinelfe , who can dill be fubdued vnder hisluts,as vnder a law. DoEir.2. PCal.tq.3. Ier 8.6.
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