. Foure godly and learned treatises ... o overcome him-felfc. The fixth motive is, becaufe they bliude the rea- Motive 6*fon and judgement, which fhould be the guide of allour adions in the courfe of this lite5 that which isfaid of bribery, that it blmdts men, and that the af-fe&ion to the bribe, makes the finne agreatdealemore* the like may be faid of other finnes : Aslong as paffion rageth, thou canft neither judge ofthine owne. nor of others faults : Ifthouwouldeftjudge of another mans fault, take away the be ante thatis in thine owne eye-, And fo if thou wouldeft judgeof thine owne faults,
. Foure godly and learned treatises ... o overcome him-felfc. The fixth motive is, becaufe they bliude the rea- Motive 6*fon and judgement, which fhould be the guide of allour adions in the courfe of this lite5 that which isfaid of bribery, that it blmdts men, and that the af-fe&ion to the bribe, makes the finne agreatdealemore* the like may be faid of other finnes : Aslong as paffion rageth, thou canft neither judge ofthine owne. nor of others faults : Ifthouwouldeftjudge of another mans fault, take away the be ante thatis in thine owne eye-, And fo if thou wouldeft judgeof thine owne faults,thefe affedions muft not blindethe minde and the realon, for (b they will hinder usindifcerning good, and in doing any thing that isgood; for when the minde is corrupted, the will iscorrupted; and then in ftead of walking in the waiesof God, wee walke in the paths of finne, there-fore, in regard of the fafetie and fecuritie of ourlives and anions, wee fhould mortifie thefe ouraffe&ions. FINIS. 2I7 HOW TO MORTIFIE Coio s. 3. which is Idolatrie. ^Ovetoafmjfe^ which isidolatrie thatrauft be mortified as well as thej other earthly members* Now3this Covetoujhejfe is nothing elfebut an inordinate and finfull de-fire, either of getting or keepingwealth or monie. The inordi-nate lufttng after honours, that is called Ambition,too much affe&ingol beautie, is called is an inordinate affedion, which when itpropoundeth riches for itsobjed, it is called Cove-toufneffe^ which is Idolatrie. Now3 Idolatrie con-fifteth in one of thefe three things, Firftj inworfhipping the true God in a wrongmanner, apprehending him as a Creatures-givingthat to him that agreeth not with him. Secondly, when as wemake the Creature a God, Ff by 218 How to wortifie Covet oufneffei by conceiving it under the Notion of a God, fodid,they who wor(hipped love, CMars^ and thofe Hea-thens that worfhipped the creatures as Gods. Thirdly, when wee attribute that unto it
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