m3}t Frcív a; q. . Naö'ifacies ch- tenehrejcere co- lor trios in ea ? lob 11.17 . Amos 4,i3. Aver qui vi- dent retepapen. juin non capi- untur,fedviden- tet periculum savent, Bayn. Nth. /9.24 2.5 aß. A Commentaryupon tIeGo el Chap.6. therefore blinde, becaufe covetous, Luke 16.14. the property of which fin is to befot and infatuate, as it did 7udas, who, though he wanted for nothing in our Saviours retinue, but was fufficient. lyprovided for, yet for filthy lucre,bafely fold' his Matter, and that for thirty filverlings (the known and pitcht price of the vilelt Have) and had the face after all, to ask, Afalter is it I ? when he knew Chilli to be the trueGod, and to know all things. B1 zing Cornets ( though but Comets) as long as they keep aloft, thine 'bright, but when they decline from their pitch, they fall to the earth. So, when men forfake the Lord , and minde earthly things, they lofe that light they had, and are diflipated, deltroy'd and come to nothing. Good therefore is the cou- fel cf Solomon, Labour not to be rich: Wilt thoafet thineeyes upon that which ti not ? Or as c.í24 ercertasother wifc reads that text, wilt thou dar,<en thine eyes upon them ? As thofe that walk long in the fnow, or that fit in a fmoaky corner, can fee littleat length. Whoredome and Wine takeaway the heart, faith Hofea, cap.4r t. as they did Solomons ; they drew out his fpirits, and diflolved his reafon : fo doth covet- oufneffe. It makes a man that he cannot fee the net that is fpred before him, whichevery bird can do, Prov. t . r7. but whiles he coveteth the bait, lofeth his life, as Shimei did by looking his f.r- vants : as Lot; who had liketohave run the fame hazard, by chu= fing the plain of7ordan : as tónas, that fuffered himfelfto be oaf into the fea, that the (hip with her lading might come fafe to fhore. Howmany carnal' mindes, like Noah; raven, fly out of the Arkof Gods Church, and imbrace this prefent world : and like the Mariners, when they found out yonas, yet fain they would have faved him : So many will rather venture their own carting away, then oafs their worldly Iuf&s over=board. How muchbetter 7ofeph, who let go his garment to fave himfelf, as Elias did his mantle to go toheaven; and Bartimenn his cloak to come toChrift ? Howmuch better Mofa, who by faith feeing him that is invifible, and having aneye to the reward ; when ha was come to years (as the text noteth) and therefore well knew what he did, for he was no baby, refuted to be calltd the fon of Pharaohs daughter, and-the worlds darling ; and chafing rather theaffliftions of Gods poor people, then thepleafures of fin for a feafon, he efzseemedthe reproachof Chri t (the worft part of him) greater riches then the treAfitresof Egypt: And why all this ?' For hie hadrefpe t1 to she recompence ofrew rd, He fec his foot,as it were, upon imitragitimmoommiffimotimm
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