The fight of faith crowned, or, A sermon preached at the funeral of that…

3. The third Regiment Christians must fight against, is the enchantments of the world; the world is a flattering enemy, it kills with embracing; worldly things are retinacula spei^*, they hinder our passage ⟨p. 6⟩to the holy Land; they choke good affections, as the earth puts out the fire; whom the world kisseth it betrayeth. Heliogabalus made ponds of sweet water to drown himself, and gilded poisons to poison himself; the world destroys millions with her sweet waters of pleasure, and her gilded poisons of preferment; let us then gird on our Armour, and fight valorously

3. The third Regiment Christians must fight against, is the inchantments of the world; the world is a flattering enemy, it kills with embracing; worldly things are retinacula spei^*, they hinder our passage ⟨p. 6⟩to the holy Land; they choke good affections, as the earth puts out the fire; whom the world kisseth it betrayeth. Heliogabalus made ponds of sweet water to drown himself, and guilded poysons to poyson himself; the world destroys millions with her sweet waters of pleasure, and her guilded poysons of preferment; let us then gird on our Armour, and fight valorously

1. *Tertul.

Good reason we should fight the fight of Faith, because we carry rich treasure about us: he who carries a charge of money about him, had need be in a fighting posture. We carry a precious soul about us; if the Cabinet of the body be so curiously wrought and embellished, Psal. 139. 15. Then what is the jewel in it? The soul is a spark and beam of celestial brightness