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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1692 Excerpt: ...Head-ach. 4. The things of the Worlds if you had more of them, cannot continue with you. M«/» w tv$turr'imv /Sio/, IJocr. The Creature hath a little Honey in its Mouth, but it hath Wings to fly away. Glass Mettal. These things either go from us, or we from them. What poor things are these to covet? (2.) Second Consideration. The Frame and Contextureof the Body. God hath made the Face to look upwards towards Heaven. Os Homini fubhmf dedit, coekmq; tueri jvflit Ovid. Anatomists observe, that whereas other Creatures have but Four Muscles to their Eyes, Man hath a Fifth Muscle, by which he is able to look up to Heaven. And ss for the Heart, it is made like a Glass Viol, narrow and contrasted downwards, but wide and broad upwards. And as the Frame and Contextnre of the Body teacheth us to look to things Above, so especially the Soul is planted in the Body, as a Divine Sparkle to ascend upwards. Can it be imagined that God gave us in-tellectual Immortal Souls, to covet only Earthly things? What wife Man would fish for Gudgeons with Golden Hooks? Did God give us Glorious Souls,only to fish for the World? Sure our Souls are made for an higher End; to aspire after the enjoyment of God in Glory. (3.) Third Consideration. The Examples of those who have been Contemners and Despisers of the World. The Primitive Christians, as Clemens Akxandrinus observes, were sequestred from the World, and where wholly taken up in ConAmbnfe. verfc with God; they lived in the World above the World. Like the Birds of Paradise, who soar above in the Air, and seldom or never touch with their Feet upon Earth. Luther faith, That he was never tempted to this Sin of Covetousness. The Saints of old, tho they did live in the World, they did trade in Heaven. Phil.3. 20. 'HyuS iraMTtt!m,...
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