Chap.6. according to S` M A T T H 7 vv. HC v al nOi have his haJen to be rich, or labour after fuperfluicies, no nor anxtou,ly,afcer neceflàries. For worldlinefle (I ray not co- vetoutnefle ) when men oppreffethemfelves with multiplying of 7e%,7a.d7 y. bufrnefiè, or fufer their thoughts and affchions tobe continually, rcJucvov A"VT E al:roft taken up,with minding there things on earth, as a main hin- -x` a'%7;41 drranee from heaven : It fills the heart with cares, and fo unfits adLvxrov. and deads it to divine duties. The thoughts as wings,fhould carry us in wor(hip even to the mansions ofGod, which being laden with thicbjlay, they fo glue us to the earth, that the loafione of the word and ordinances cannot draw us one jot from it. The KJ'i v lout is alto hereby made like a will,where one cannot hear another, icJ rd; àrL.1. the noife is 'inch as takesawy allintercourfe. If conscience call to them to takeheed of going outofGods way, they areat as little leiture to liften, as he that runs in a race ; who many times runs with fo much violence, that he cannot hear what is laid unto him, be it never fo good counfel.And having thus fet their hearts,and an- chored their hopesupon earthly things, if ever they lose them, as it often falleth out,they are filled almolt withunmedicinable (arrows, fo as they will praife the dead above the living, and r,oifko they had, never been born, Ecclet.4.1 ,2,3. Lo this is the guile andguerdotn of thofe Inhabitants of the earth, thoteviri divitiarnm, as the Ptalmift (tiles them, thofe miferable muck-worms, that prefer Mammon before Ivietlias, gold before God, money before mercy, earthbefore heaven : as childifh a weakneffe as that ofHonoritss c oru a sâ :z . the Emperour, that preferred a Hen before the City of' Rome. rrfrataruuitd Mammon,faith one,is a monfter, whole head is as fubtill as the ter- 'i1`; a,/crtpturæ ent whole mouth is wide as hell, eyes Char as aLizard, fcent (`u'pturz, qu;_ p Y P 6u1 ó -ePas quick as the Vulture, hands fait as Harpyes, belly infatiable as a Ta.x a ës,rai Wolfe, feet fwift to fixed-blond, as a Lioneffe robbed of' her 44);e'r ut outgo. whelps. Ahab will have Nabothsvineyard, or he will have his di" Ietety blood. 7adae was bothcovetous and a murderer, and thereforea, !murderer, becaufe covetous. He is called alto a thief, and why a thief,but b.caute aMammonifl. Covetoufnefledraws a man from See Di¿es all tha Commandments, Pfal.a a,0.36,And there want not thofe, that have drawn the covetous perfon thorow all the Command- Eon,. tnents,andproved him anAtheiti,a Papi(t, a perjurer,a profaner of Gods Sabbath, an iron. boweld wretch, a murtherer, anadulterer, a thief, afalte witnefle, or whatfoever elfe the devil will. Andcan . this man ever ferveGod acceptably ?- canhepoffibly pleafe two fo contrary mal}trsi, No :.he. maay fooneP: reconcil.iìaçandwacer,., 1001i, 235 11.11111r
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