Cita.a,sx'. tílCommentarie vpon the 464 cloathedzponwith their keepfrom heatee,, which is Worth ál1 otir longing, and labour : for how foeuer we are here clothed with a ragged and wea- therbeaten garment of corruption and ail rhefeoutward things, after which men fo chick and lull, cannot long vphold it ; yet hereafter we (hall be cloached vpon withone garment vpon another , namely , both thegarment ofChrills righteoufneffeoand the garment of immortality and glory. But pitifull it is to fee , how the thirfl of the world in moti, bath eatenout thefe longirgdelires; and that a number wife no other heaucn,then that they enicy vpon the earth ; and can feat rely endure to heave of any exchange. 3.. Thefe lufis are fitter for the courfeof naturevnmortified : Ephef. 2. 3.-wee had in time paf our conuerfation among the Gentile,, in the hefe of theflelb--- but noir, &c. which let fuch prof, llors thinkeoff ,who frame themfelues too much to the faiî.ion of the world, in mear, drinke, apparell,fports,andother things, perhappesmore vnlawfuli then thefe. For thus to walke, argueth little or no confcience or feeling either of fin Rom.t;.rt, or grace; and the gendefi name the Apofile gilled-lit, is afleepie walking. Such may indeed carrie the titleofChrifüans, but the worke of Chri- ', ftianitie is not prefent where there is a fight of lufis again]} the foule, but not ofthe fpirit againfi lufis ; andmuch lefre where there furnaces are fed and fewelled, and the flames arenot daily dying and extingui- fned, Yfe. a. This teacheth,that only true religion teacheth true mortifi- tr at,,, I. cation, and fuffereth not a man towalke after his lu(is; though he walke a.rxa s.Cur. in theflefb, yet hecannot walke after thefell,. All false religions carrie indeed pretencesof the fpirit,as Zidikiah fmote hlichaiah,and iaid,when tlingaas4 went thefpiritfrom 'nee to thee? but the true religion onely bath the pro- 8.t; mite and pretence of the fpirit ,which indeedemortifeth the deeder of the Onetr °ur. c- fíefh. Euery water in ludea could not heave the lame,but only thewater etatr teach- of the Poole of Bethefda in which the Angel flirted ; Arbanah and eta true mortc Ecacion. Pharphar the duetsof Damafcus(alrhottgh in (hew much more excellc"t "45' then Iordan) cannot cure the leproleof Naaman : Nomore caneuery religion,or any but this which alone is fromGod, cure thevncleannes & leprote ofour Conies. The religion oldiePharifies wasoutwardly ex- ceeding glorious , and very ftritl ; yet Paul ( whohad trued according to the moltfirift fill ofthem all) prote(feth that before he knewChrifi , he was not crucified to the world. At this da9,Poperie which cariethwith it a great (hewofhamblenes of mind , and beating downe the bodie, yet is farce from teaching true mortification : for what dotkriue ( the ' Turkifh not excepted)goeth further in clayming iufiificationand life,as the merit oftheir owneobferuances ? yea take the (iritiefi fort of them; as
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