Chap:6. according to"S= _AT r a a? vv. 233 upon the battlements of heaven, and there-hence looked upon Fo?quam in there earthly happineffes, as bafe andabj c`t, fl:ight and fender, raozruxi Zcrri. waterifh and worthleffe. The great Cities of Campania feem, remaJJerur;ri- but(mall cottages to them that fiend on the top of the Alps the ms. Farv. rrobrQ Moor. covereth her felf with apale vail, and flames not at all in the (-9,0 urns , prdfence ofthe Sun : No mare doth thebeauty and"bravery of the 144n;a world ( wherewith carnali mindes are fo bedazelled and be- v:dearu-: ft a va vrr(25,sq+. wirched ) to a man that hash been in paradif.. with 'Paid, that far bath already laid hold on eternall life. The moles of the earth, ráa d;virr cum' that areblinde and cannot fee farre off, that have animas trisiciarn, cz .á+:r re¡ iç;a . .a wheaten frul, with that fool in the Gofpel, and know no other C.i,Ylo -t H..r. happineffe, th. n tohave and to hold; therehave their eyes L1inded s'and r op.eu. t by the god ofthis world, as lac had his wets ftopp 'ed up with .oc c . s. ,earthby the `l'hiliflines. And as a{mall diilr being held near the ua.vsrrs, ekes,hidethfromour fight a great mountain : and a little bill or Mort,o,aios cloud, the great body of the Sun, though it be farre bigger then hzbrntes;utser. the wholeearth: So thefe earthly trifles being placed near mens racer fciticar . fight, .do fa (hallow and over-cloud thofe great and glorious ex- : ari4 sac e,F, cellencies that are above, that they.can neither truly behold them, G ,:, n6,a y., nor-rightly judge ofthem. \Vhen men travelll fo farre into the The ioets South, that the fight ofthe North, pole is at length interceptedby fr.gned P,utus ' 4the earth, it is a tigne they are farre from it: fo is it, that men' arc the god of r,dt. farre fromheaven, when the love of the earth comes in betwixt es co be li .de. Thvites facuS- their foulsaand the fight thereof: Earth-damps quench the fpirits taribxs(u14 afli - `lamp. Much water of affliCtioncannot graench that love, that yet gatá.rr,1i, asy a little earth may loon do. 7:1;p uíafufpáciunr, ' Vale 24- No man canferve tiro Maßers, &c.] The 1flammon- çua,u cmtum, illsmindc muff needs be full of darkneffe, becaufe utterly deftitu- '111°` Udan. ted,of the Father oflights, theSunofthe' foul forye cannot ferve twNlMatlers, God and Mammon. By c íawman is meant earth- Magna ell `og-- 1 treafure worldly wealth, out abundanceof eciall when náráo dáviráa y P y Q vitáú. gottenby evil arts,_ it.co meth to be the gain Of ungodlineffe, 37..GQ thewages of wicladneffe, riches ofunrighteoufnefl'e, filthy lucre. When 7ofeph was caft into the pit by his bloudy brethren, what actin ( faith 7udah) Wait be if We kithim ? The Chaldee there haéh it,, wbat Mammonßha/l it be ? What can we make of it ? What profit (hall we reap or receive thereby ?' Now thef.two, God andMammon, as they are incompatible Matters fo the va- riance between them is irreconcileable. Amity With the World áa,emnityWith the Lord, Jam. 4,..4.; Emnity, I Say, .in a .fcnfe both Illieromr..r
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