SECT. VII.* 1.1
6. ANd all these defects being thus discovered, what a deal of dissembling doth it more over shew? We take on us to believe undoubtedly, the exceeding eternal weight of Glory: We call God our chiefest Good, and say, we love Him above all, and for all this we fly from Him, as if it were from Hell it self; would you have any man believe you, when you call the Lord your onely Hope, and speak of Christ as All in All, and talk of the Joy that is in Presence, and yet would endure the hardest life, rather then dye and come unto him? What self-contradiction is this, to talk so hardly of the world and flesh, to groan and complain of sin and suf∣fering, and yet fear no day more then that which we expect should bring our finall freedom? what shameless gross dissembling is this, to spend so many hours, and dayes, in hearing Sermons, reading Books, conferring with others, and all to learn the way to a place which we are loth to come to? To take on us all our life-time, to walk towards Heaven, to run, to strive, to fight for Heaven, which we are loth to come to? What apparent palpable hypocrysie is this, to lye upon our knees in publike and private, and spend one hour after another in prayer, for that which we would not have? If one should over-hear thee in thy daily devotions, crying out, Lord deliver me from this body of death, from this sin, this sickness, this poverty, these cares and feares, how long Lord shall I suffer these? and withall should hear thee praying