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Corollary 6.
Did Iudas sell Christ for mony?* 1.1 What a potent conqueror is the love of this world! How many hath it cast down wound∣ed? What great Professors have been dragged at its Chariot wheels as its captives? Hymeneus and Philetus, Ananias and Sa∣phira, Demas and Iudas, with thousands and ten thousands since their daies, led away in triumph. It drowns men in perdition. 1 Tim. 6.9. in that pit of perdition, this Son of perdition fell, and never rose more. O you that so court and prosecute it, that so love and admire it, make a stand here. Pause a little upon this example. Consider to what it brought this poor wretch whom I have presen∣ted to you dead, eternally dead, by the mortal wound that the love of this world gave him; it destroyed both soul and body. Pliny tells us that the Mermaids delight to be in green meadows into which they draw men, by their inchanting voices; but saith he there alwaies lie heaps of dead mens bones by them. A lively emblem of a be∣witching world. Good had it been for many Professors of Re∣ligion, if they had never known what the riches, and honours, and pleasures of this world meant.