indeuours in that, whereby they may receiue so great aduantage; and to neglect the pleasures of sinne, and the eager pursuit of worldly vanities, which profit not, as bringing in comparison, no true good, sound com∣fort, or solid contentment for the present; and when they bee taken from vs, or we from them (one of which must needs happen, and we know not how soone) leaue nothing behind them, but woe and misery. Doe not therefore (I beseech thee Christian Reader) as thou tendrest the euer∣lasting saluation of thy precious soule, O doe not suffer thine eyes to bee blinded and dazeled with the sudden flashes of worldly vanities, which like lightening passe swiftly away, and leaue nothing behind but blacke darknesse, so as thou canst not discerne the beauty and brightnesse of spi∣rituall graces and heauenly excellencies. Doe not content thy selfe with a slight and superficiall view of these following reasons, which perswade thee for thine owne good, vnto the duties of a godly life, nor to haue read them ouer with a curious eye, rather to see what may bee said, then with a purpose to make vse of them for thy practice of holinesse, if thou be thorowly conuinced by euidence of truth shining in them: but pon∣der them seriously with thy selfe, and if thou finde them to beare any waight, be perswaded by them to neglect no longer thine owne good, nor to deferre and put off the seruing of God in the duties of a godly life, but seeke first his Kingdome and righteousnesse, when as thou shalt plainly dis∣cerne, that his glory, and thy good, are through his mercy so matched to∣gether, that thou canst not seeke the one, but thou shalt assuredly finde the other.