Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

But O thou vain man, know thou art utterly ¹mistaken in thy choice, if thou continuest in this way of thine, that thou hast chosen to satisfy thy flesh in, thou art undone for ever, thou wilt ere long cry out of this thy choice most bitterly, and curse thy self for it most fearfully: It is a seduced heart that hath deceived thee, and thou feedest upon ashes, and thou canst not say, Is there not a lye in my right hand? Isaiah 44. 20. It is true, not only of Idolaters, but of all other ways ⟨p. 148⟩of evil; thou feedest upon ashes, they are but ashes thou feedest upon, and delightest in, and it is a seduced heart hath turned thee aside from the ways of God, that makes thee offended at them; it is the God of this world that hath blinded thy eyes, so that thou shouldest not see the glorious excellencies, and beautiful pleasures, and sweet delights, that are in the ways of God, but that thou shouldest please thy self in those ways that tend to death: What hath the whole course of thy life been, but playing with the Devils bait, under which is a hook that will snatch thee into the sorrows of eternal death? Howsoever those that live in jollity and delight in the flesh, may bless themselves, yet Gods people whose eyes God hath opened, would not be in their condition one quarter of an hour for a thousand worlds. There are divers sorts that come under this use of reprehension, ²for that ill and woeful choice they have made.

But O thou vain man, know thou art utterly ¹mistaken in thy choice, if thou continuest in this way of thine, that thou hast chosen to satisfie thy flesh in, thou art undone for ever, thou wilt ere long cry out of this thy choice most bitterly, and curse thy self for it most fearfully: It is a seduced heart that hath deceived thee, and thou feedest upon ashes, and thou canst not say, Is there not a lye in my right hand? Esay 44. 20. It is true, not onely of Idolators, but of all other ways ⟨p. 148⟩of evil; thou feedest upon ashes, they are but ashes thou feedest upon, and delightest in, and it is a seduced heart hath turned thee aside from the ways of God, that makes thee offended at them; it is the God of this world that hath blinded thy eyes, so that thou shouldest not see the glorious excellencies, and beautiful pleasures, and sweet delights, that are in the ways of God, but that thou shouldest please thy self in those ways that tend to death: What hath the whole course of thy life been, but playing with the Devils bait, under which is a hook that will snatch thee into the sorrows of eternal death? Howsoever those that live in jollity and delight in the flesh, may bless themselves, yet Gods people whose eyes God hath opened, would not be in their condition one quarter of an hour for a thousand worlds. There are divers sorts that come under this use of reprehension,