The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature…

It was a good meditation of a forequoted Author, Those that travel in long pilgrimages to the holy Land, what a number of weary paces they measure? What a number of hard lodgings and known dangers they pass? and at last when they are come within view of their journeys end, what a large tribute they pay at the Pisan Castle to the Turks? and when they are come thither, what see they but the bare sepulchre wherein their Saviour lay, and the earth that he trod upon, to the increase of a carnal ⟨p. 87⟩Devotion? What labour should I willingly undertake in my journey to the true Land of Promise, the celestial Jerusalem, where I shall see and enjoy my Saviour himself? What tribute of pain or death should I refuse to pay •or my entrance not into his Sepulchre, but his Palace of glory, and that not to look upon, but to possess it.

It was a good meditation of a forequoted Author, Those that travel in long pilgrimages to the holy Land, what a number of weary paces they measure? What a number of hard lodgings and known dangers they pass? and at last when they are come within view of their journeys end, what a large tribute they pay at the Pisan Castle to the Turks? and when they are come thither, what see they but the bare sepulchre wherein their Saviour lay, and the earth that he trode upon, to the encrease of a carnal ⟨p. 87⟩Devotion? What labour should I willingly undertake in my journey to the true Land of Promise, the celestial Jerusalem, where I shall see and enjoy my Saviour himself? What tribute of pain or death should I refuse to pay •or my entrance not into his Sepulchre, but his Palace of glory, and that not to look upon, but to possess it.

Thirdly, As many make the World their main work, and others Superstition their principal occupation, so most make wickedne their chief, their constant trade and busine. While sanctity is but coldly entertained, but complemented with, sin is laid in the bosom and heartily embraced; the turnings and windings that are in the sinners way, are not easily to be observed; the pains which he takes to bring forth and breed up those Birds which will peck out his own eyes, can neither be fully described, nor sufficiently lamented. In what hast and hurry is Absalom for an Halter? what work doth lust make in Ammon, to wast his body, and send his soul to endless woe? How fast doth Gehazi run after a Leprosy, as if he might come too late? How sick and violent is Ahab for Naboths Vine yard? How fiercely doth Balaam ride even without reigns, after the wages of unrighteousness? How eager and earnest were Pharaoh, and his Egyptians, to fight against God? what a stir, what a do, they make to overtake destruction, and to sink like Lead, in the midst of the mighty waters Joshua could stop the Sun in his course, but not Achan in his covetous career; Paul before his conversion (as one observes) followed