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Fifthly, be willing to abate somewhat of your delight ¹in the creature that you do enjoy, do not give liberty to your selves, to satisfy your selves to the full: Is it seemly that when Gods choice Servants have suffered, and still do suffer such hard things, that you should delight and rejoice to the utmost in giving content unto the flesh? You know how it was with Uriah, while the Ark, and his Lord Joab was in the field, he would not go down to his house to solace himself there. Josephus de bello Judaico lib. 6. reports of Titus, when he had by his conquest brought the Jews into miserable extremities, that some of the Priests petitioning him for their lives, he commanded them to be slain, saying, they were of degenerous minds that they desired to live, when their people and Religion suffered so much as it did: Titus a Heathen judged thus of them; of what degenerous minds then are those, who not only desire to live, but to live in pomp, in bravery, in giving liberty to themselves in all sensual delights, in abating nothing of their carnal contentments, when they see and hear of the Churches of God suffering grievous things, brought unto lamentable straights under the burden of most heavy and sore afflictions? The like we find ⟨p. 30⟩related of Anchises Aeneas his father; when Aeneas would have saved his life, Far be it from me, says he, that I should desire to live when Troy suffers that it does:

Fifthly, be willing to abate somewhat of your delight ¹in the creature that you do enjoy, do not give liberty to your selves, to satisfie your selves to the full: Is it seemly that when Gods choice Servants have suffered, and still do suffer such hard things, that you should delight and rejoyce to the utmost in giving content unto the flesh? You know how it was with Uriah, while the Ark, and his Lord Joab was in the field, he would not go down to his house to solace himself there. Josephus de bello Iudaico lib. 6. reports of Titus, when he had by his conquest brought the Jews into miserable extremities, that some of the Priests petitioning him for their lives, he commanded them to be slain, saying, they were of degenerous mindes that they desired to live, when their people and Religion suffered so much as it did: Titus a Heathen judged thus of them; of what degenerous mindes then are those, who not onely desire to live, but to live in pomp, in bravery, in giving liberty to themselves in all sensual delights, in abating nothing of their carnal contentments, when they see and hear of the Churches of God suffering grievous things, brought unto lamentable straights under the burthen of most heavy and sore afflictions? The like we finde