The beatitudes

2. It reproves them who instead of running the race Branch. 2 of Gods Commandments, spend all their time in joviality and mirth, as if their life were rather a dance than a race. Job 21.12, 13. They take the Timbrel and Harp, and rejoice at the sound of the Organ, they spend their days in mirth; they are at their music when they should be at their race: Amos 6.4. That chant to the sound of the Viol, that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments. 'Tis hard to have two heavens; some are all for pleasure; [Greek or Hebrew]: they are like those hunting-dogs Diodorus Siculus speaks of, while they run among the sweet flowers, they smell to the flowers, and lose sent of the Hare, and leave off their game. So while many are among the sweet flowers, the delights and pleasures of the world, they fall a smelling to these flowers, and leave off their race. […] sub dulci melle latent venena. — These go merrily to hell; I may say as Solomon, Prov. 14.13. The end of that mirth is heaviness.

2. It reproves them who instead of running the race Branch. 2 of Gods Commandements, spend all their time in joviality and mirth, as if their life were rather a daunce than a race. Job 21.12, 13. They take the Timbrel and Harp, and rejoyce at the sound of the Organ, they spend their dayes in mirth; they are at their musick when they should be at their race: Amos 6.4. That chaunt to the sound of the Viol, that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief oyntments. 'Tis hard to have two heavens; some are all for pleasure; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: they are like those hunting-dogs Diodorus Siculus speaks of, while they run among the sweet flowers, they smell to the flowers, and lose sent of the Hare, and leave off their game. So while many are among the sweet flowers, the delights and pleasures of the world, they fall a smelling to these flowers, and leave off their race. 〈…〉 sub dulci melle latent venena. — These go merrily to hell; I may say as Solomon,