CHAP.2.t M . cis coantrlertarte uponshe 478 to be in allgodly conuerfation, z.Pet.3.rr.when we (hall appeare before the great fudge ofall the world, uothingbut godlynes fhati be able to behead vs. In this prefent world.] Goeincsmu!! I.Nate that godïineffemull not Co lie hid in the heart, but it mull be cxercif din appeare in the eyes of the world,neither mull it be negle&ed till death, tVOridefene butexercifed in this prefent world: apoint the more needefull to bee propounded, in that euery man naturally wilheth with Balaatn to dic' well and godly : but forget the praélife ofpietie in their life time,we fee the moll men would be put in miede ofGod at their death, and fend for Van him as an the miniiier hhePh htian bath left them ho eles of life ea albe- Agoa Vita: bot a wen the S' p sy tle, it they haue forgotten the almightie, and negleéled acquaintance with him all their dayes, yet at the finifhing of them , they would feeme to feeicevoto him. Bit it is moll righteous withGod,tha: an vngodly life be fiurlhed with a proportionallcleath,whatfoeuer it feemeth to be: and therefore it is a fate rule worthy our remembrance, that whatfoeuer we wouldbe found doingon our dying day,tobe doing it euery day while we liue. Qui de(ìínarad 2.Notehence that it is a molt deceitfuli and defperate argument thus finem,deRinat to conclude; IfI be ordained to faivation, let nie neuer pray,neuer ferue ad media. God and doe what I will, I (hall be fatted : and on the contrarie ; and hence tb call off all the care ofgoddineffe : for this openly proclaimeth want ofgrace, which direéteth men to the meanes,and leadeth them the way of faluation in this prefent world. God in wiledome hath combi- ned to euerie ende his meanes in all his ordinariecourfes , as to naturali life,bread,fleepe,Phyfeke; fo to the fpirituall the word , Sacraments, prayer,fobrietie ,righteoufneffe,pietie:and therefore the argument will be found in the contrarie, thus: ItGod haue appointed nie to die the deathof the righteous,he bath ordained me to the meanes , namely , to lige the life of the righteous: if to glorie,then to grace : if to the full re- uelacíon ofglory hereafter,then to the firfi fruits ofit hereingrace :if to thegreat citie ofthe great king hereafter,then to the fuburbs here:there No iumpingin is no lumping to heauen, nomore then a man can leape from one citie to heauen. to another vpon earth. Naturali reafon teacheth that there is no skip- ping from one extreame to an other without a meane ; and much more doth diuine wifdome tell vs,that no man canclimbe from earth to hea- uenwithout Chriil the ladder,and faith with the fruitsofhope, loue, o- The right ende bedience,&c. which are as it were the (laces of the fame. of thisprefent 3. Note hence what is the proper endeofouery mans life in thispre- life is to learno feet world namely that in the way ofa fober, righteous , and religious better. to a life ,he may attaine euerlafling happineffe hereafter': there is no other time
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