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Be exhorted therefore, to account no pains too much to take; no time too long to write, no thing too much to suffer, so you may manage Religion according to the worth of it, and enjoy God in all ways communicable. Let your eyes be ever towards the Lord.

Be exhorted therefore, to account no paines too much to take; no time too long to write, no thing too much to suffer, so you may manage Religion according to the worth of it, and enjoy God in all ways communicable. Let your eyes be ever towards the Lord.

1. Be not envious at the prosperity of the wicked: never so much as tamper with any of their ways of getting, that which they call happiness. Suppose, saith Cyprian, thou was placed on the top of some Mountain, whence thou mightest safely behold, fluctuantis mundi turbines, the unquiet world that cannot rest; among the wicked 'tis a crime to be innocent. Pleasures are surfeiting?

1. Be not envious at the prosperity of the wicked: never so much as tamper with any of their wayes of getting, that which they call happinesse. Suppose, saith Cyprian, thou was placed on the top of some Mountain, whence thou mightest safely behold, fluctuantis mundi turbines, the unquiet world that cannot rest; among the wicked 'tis a crime to be innocent. Pleasures are surfetting?

Honour's blandientium virus occultum, the poisonous breath of flatterers. And riches, O nominum quanta diversitas, how are they mis-called? we call them goods, and they are almost constantly made use of to evil. Suppose you saw (with a heart to consider) such a prospect, would this tempt you, to fall in love with it? But now look back again (for alas while you are gazing on the world, you have your back upon God) you may hear a voice behind you,