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

Next, they are to be blamed, that with neglect of better things, settle and fix themselves upon these. It is the heart that makes all evil, when that lying speech of Satan is borrowed, All these are mine. Christ teacheth us, first to seek the kingdom of heaven, then shall the rest be cast upon us. When the bargain is made for salvation, the rest come in like lumber. When you have fed heartily on the body of your Saviour, and gotten assurance to drink the wine of heaven, then eat, drink, and be merry. First marry thy sons soul to CHRIST, then his body to a virtuous wife. The Factor employed in foreign parts, first dispatcheth his Masters business, then his own. How preposterous is it, to omit that only thing in this world, for which we came into the world; to serve our maker!

Next, they are to be blamed, that with neglect of better things, settle and fixe themselves upon these. It is the heart that makes all evill, when that lying speech of Satan is borrowed, All these are mine. Christ teacheth us, first to seeke the kingdome of heaven, then shall the rest be cast upon us. When the bargaine is made for salvation, the rest come in like lumber. When you have fed heartily on the body of your Saviour, and gotten assurance to drinke the wine of heaven, then eate, drinke, and be merry. First marry thy sonnes soule to CHRIST, then his body to a vertuous wife. The Factor employed in forraine parts, first dispatcheth his Masters businesse, then his owne. How preposterous is it, to omit that onely thing in this world, for which we came into the world; to serve our maker!

The last sin of the old world, was Security. The Lords forbearance did so little stir them, that they were scarce waked with his vengeance. The savaged creatures, Lions, Tigers, Bears, by Gods instinct came to seek succour in the A•• men did not seek it. Even brutishness is more sensible than corrupted reason. The Sybarites, that no disturbance might come near their beds of violets; banished al• cocks and clocks: the former must not break their sleeps, nor the other vex them with report of the fugitive time. Epimenides the Cretan slept fourscore year in a Cave; some say but forty, and that was enough in conscience; beyond a miracle, and doubtless beyond the truth. But the old world slept a hundred and twenty years, and all Noah's hammering about the Ark wakened them not. O that the conscience of man, in the midst of so many sins provoking God, so many temptations assaulting his own soul, so many enemies against him, so many dangers about him, should still be secure! She is observed by her own eye, when none else mark her: chased by her own foot, when none else follow her: hath a thousand witnesses within her, when there is no outward stir against her: and yet the wicked sleep.