Spiritual refining

First, Earthly things: There are none scarce have less conscience about good and evil, less apprehension about God, than those that like Moles are always digging in the earth. Judas from a covetous principle within, betrayeth and selleth innocent blood. How could he commit such an unnatural sin, do that which the natural light of Conscience would so condemn? It was Covetousness. Which made the Apostle call the love of money, the root of all evil, 1 Tim. 6. 10. as that which would put out all divine & humane light in a man. The Pharisees who were covetous derided and scorned Christ; these Terrae filii are never Caeli fil•i, These Children or Sons of the earth, are never capacious of heavenly light. Its the punishment upon many a man which twas on the Serpent, to lick the dust of the earth, and to live upon that; so many men go to bed, rise and walk wholly with earthly and worldly affections, into these they are even transformed, and made like clods of earth. Now such men have very little apprehension upon sin, or godliness; were it not for the shape of their bodies, you might judge them beasts, for they regard only the things of sense. Thus as the glorious Sun is eclipsed by the interposition of the Moon; so do earthy thoughts, and earthy affections obscure that petty light, which shineth in a mans breast; and certainly, if love of the world hath put out the Gospel, and Scripture light that shined in some mens breasts, as the Scripture gives pregnant proofs of it; no wonder if it do wholly extinguish the light of nature. Take heed then of Corah's judgement or a worse, he was bodily swallowed up in the earth, but thou in thy soul and spirit. Is it not with thee as the barren heath, that brings forth nothing but Briars and Thorns fit for burning; so thy life produceth nothing but damnable matter, and what makes for eternal destruction. Be not therefore in this sense, a worm and no man, one that is wholly bred of the earth, and liveth in it: Though nature and grace preach to such; though the Word of God cry aloud to such, yet they have no ears to hear.

First, Earthly things: There are none scarce have lesse conscience about good and evill, lesse apprehension about God, than those that like Moles are alwayes digging in the earth. Judas from a covetous principle within, betrayeth and selleth innocent bloud. How could he commit such an unnaturall sin, do that which the natural light of Conscience would so condemn? It was Covetousness. Which made the Apostle call the love of mony, the root of all evil,