C,rtAr.: I 4. (/4 ColAriteAtBlfe?lpoX the 47o refi in nothing but inGodsportionof gifts andgood blcf(ings :in which { thou fhalt be able to fay that thy linesare fallen in agood ground,& that thou haft a goodly inheritance, whereas the vanitie and delires ofthe 2 mind arc numberlesand refile;. Secondly, know and remember that the end ofall thy receits is Godsglory in ehe feruice ofthe Church,& ifthou haft receiued moregifts, thoumuff doemore fetuice :for fo the Apofile reafoneth, Rona.r 2.3.4. taking a comparifen from the members of the bodie, whichhaue not all one office,but dtuerie, yet neuer a one is his owne but anothers ; men fo faithhe, we Are one Anothers members r what thenmuff the more honourablemembers difdaine the iuferiour ones as bluing no needofthem ? No, but chis muff receiue more feruice and fafecie from them: and this is a fpeciall confideration to keepe the heart from fwelling andproud conceits. 3 Thirdly,latour tovfe all the good gifts ofGod. r. la the right waft, a acknowledge that it is God that teacheth,feedeth, cloatheth thee, pro. uideth thy portion for thee,and mainrainetb thy rentsand inc.ines.Thui (halt thou not facrifice to thineown nee in any thing,nor reioyce in that thine ownehand hathmade thee inwardly or outwardly rich; neither be fo diftruftfullyprouident, as though thou hadfi no father to prouide for a thee. 2. In the iufi meafureoftheir goodnefífeand cxcellencie, rightly difcerning and di flinguifhingbetweene fpirituall and temporal! good things, and waighing themaright in the fcoales of the Sanétuarie, find- ing the lightneffe of the latter, that they may glue place to the former. Thus (halt thou bedrawnewithgood contentment, to part with thefe for the fruitionof the other ; yea chinke thy (elfe richer with one dramnc. of thefe, then witha talent oftheother. ;. In their right ends, vies, and fcafons, for molt part frugally; and fometimes for delightful! and plea- fureablc vfe , but neuer immoderately : and thus (hall thy ende and vie agreewithGods,and with the feruice of thyneceffarie and lawful! oc- cafions, and not the fatisfyingofthy vnlawfull lufi. Now the praElife ofthisvcrtue in thefe rules is a fruit of ourredemp- tion, t. Per. t. t ;. 14. &c. to the which Teeing the Gofpcl callcth vs,. how ought we to open ourcares, and hearts toentertaine this voice.The Icr3544. Tonnes of lonadab the fonne ofRechah obeyed their father when hecal- led the" tofobriety,.heyneither drunk wine nor built houfes,norplar.red. vineyards,but obeyed their father in theft f3raìght cornmandements,and for this theLordbleffed them exceedingly: now theLordcommethnot with loch a liraight charge, not fuch a oneas flrippes vs from thefecom- fortsof our lines, but onely retioreth the right and comfortable vfe of them vnto vs : and may not he much more fay to vs as he did to the Iewes;fhosldyrs notb,Arrmy words 4o? it they obeyed their earthly fathee
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