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Some general directions for a comfortable walking with God delivered in the lecture at…Some generall directions for a comfortable walking with God deliuered in the lecture at…
Some general directions for a comfortable walking with God delivered in the lecture at Kettering in Northamptonshire, with enlargement: by Robert Bolton ...Some generall directions for a comfortable walking with God deliuered in the lecture at Kettering in Northhamptonshire, with enlargement: by Robert Bolton ...
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Edmund Weaver, 1626London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Edmund Weauer, 1626
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
9. The Sun and Moon are far more glistering and glorious, then the burnished gold of Ophir: and the poorest man hath as large a prospect and part in them, as the vastest Encloser, or most griping Usurer: but much more benefit by them, then the rich worldlings by their golden heaps. For he is comfortably warmed, and refreshed with the influence of their heat and light: but they, if the Devil did not hoodwink them, might see every time they look thereon, that rust cleaving to their unrighteous Mammon, which1 hereafter shall eat their flesh as it were fire.
9. The Sunne and Moone are farre more glistering and glorious, then the burnisht gold of Ophyr: and the poorest man hath as large a prospect and part in them, as the vastest Incloser, or most griping Vsurer: but much more benefit by them, then the rich worldlings by their golden heapes. For he is comfortably warmed, and refreshed with the influence of their heate and light: but they, if the Deuill did not hoodwinke them, might see euery time they looke thereon, that rust cleauing to their vnrighteous Mammon, which1 hereafter shall eate their flesh as it were fire.
10. One Star doth incomparably exceed in beauty and worth a golden earth: and if thou be truly Gods, and have thy foot already upon the Moon, as thou oughtest, thou1 shalt hereafter tread everlastingly upon thousands of them. Disdain then in the mean time, to let thy heavenly spirit dote upon those baser hoards of shining earth, which are making themselves wings to fly away, as an Eagle toward Heaven: for riches are like transitory streams, which posting by the side of a City, no man can stay. Were it not a senseless and brainless endeavour and expectation, for a Town to hope and assay to keep with them the hasty current of a mighty River, which none of an hundred Townes before could hold? And doest thou expect any constancy of