Lovers of Life, more then Christ, threatned,
With the Losse of it. Whosoever will save his life, shall loose it, saith Matthew, c. 6. 25. Who∣soever shall seek to save his life, saith Luke. ch. 17. 33. (though he have not what he seeks for.) nay further yet (according to the title) he that LOVETH his life, shall loose it, saith John (though he never sought to save it) Ch. 12. 2. If thou doest, but in thine heart (where I might have left out the but, be∣cause that which is least with men, is most, & almost all with God,) preferre this life before thy Saviour; with what sense canst thou pre∣sume to have him thy Saviour; or with what face canst thou expect to have that life which thou hast by overmuch affection to this, sleighted and rejected?