A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

It also informs us to moderate our affections, and not to surfeit on this world •ich we have made so corrupt by our sins. What creature is there, on which our •iety hath not stuck some blemish? what do we use, whereon we read not en• •ven the characters of our own obliquities? Our apparel is but the cover of ⟨p. 540⟩our shame: by our bravest accoutrements, we may take measure of our delinqui•• ments. Adam was more glorious without raiment, than all his posterity can be […] it: neither can the glory we seek in our clothing, conceal or countervail the i• nominy that came by our sinning. For our meat, is not our life maintained by […] death of other creatures? Our preservation, by their destruction: sin brought […] necessity; without that no creature should have lost his life to become our fo•• This was not from the Creation, creatures were not made to this end. Innoce•• would have preserved all to a higher and more excellent use. We should have […] meat far sweeter; and such as should have cost no creature the life. Let my […] thus meditate; this creature dieth not for it self, but for me; not for it's own f••• but mine: if I had my desert, I should rather dye than it. Do we not read, our •• ming and sordid lusts in the infected air? Our blasphemies in the blemished Moo•• Glimmering Stars, and blushing Sun? Our oppressions in the harrowed and wo•• dead earth? Our impieties in the groaning of all creatures? If a rich man sho••• heap all his wealth together, and then set his house on fire; hath he cause of joy […] see this? There is an ataxy and disorder in all the world wrought by our sins: […] trees must fall under the wounding axe, the bowels of the earth be rent, to buil••• a dwelling: and shall not this move us? Can we glory in our shame? with that i sulting Monarch, This is my Babel. We had a better mansion, once, without […] of this violence; Paradise. Thus as he that rifled the poor scholar, robbed ten me once: he having borrowed of one his horse, of another his spurs, &c. O when Aesop's jay was stripped of her brave plumes, there were twenty birds undone, […] had lent her their feathers. So when death deprives man of his life, he finds ma creatures to have spent their bloods and beings towards his maintenance. Our co fort be it, that our Patent is renewed in Christ; the second Adam regetting […] the former had lost.