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OH Friends!
Do not Dye from the Good through the Wantonness of flesbly Lusts, neither be choked with the Cares of this Life, nor fear the Shearers, neither let the Heat scorch your green Blade; but dwell under the Shadow of the Almighty, who will shade you from the Heat and Cold. Neither be cumbred nor surfeited with the Riches of this World, nor bound, nor straitned with them, nor married to them; but be free and loose from them, and be married to the Lord.
The Sufferings in all Ages of the Righteous and Just were, because they could not join to the Nations vain Worships, evil Customs, Rudi∣ments, Traditions and carnal Inventions, but joined to the Lord, and not to them; and therefore they suffered, and kept single to the Lord God in following him and his Truth, and living in it, the Amen, the Crown, Life, Vertue and Righteousness, that floweth over all, in which the Righteous have Peace.
G. F.
Epist. 161.
Riches.
The Sufferings of the Righte∣ous.