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 are now dearer than jewels. No, ſays the Pope, not a drop till ye tell out money; that bloody beaſt would fell the water of Rome for gold; as meikle money, as meikle grace and forgiveneſs; but Chriſt and his world care no more for money than before.

2. There are excellent promiſes made to overcomers; to him that taketh heaven with ſtroke of ſword and blood; for heaven is a beſieged city or caſtle; armies of ſin with all their armour, and the deceiving and malicious world; the world has Eve's apple in the one hand, and fire and ſword in the other, and the devil is the captain of the army; now, here is a price ſet, and an offer made to him that overcometh, to him that will mount up by faith and hope, and leap up in Chriſt's chariot, and beſide him life, beſide him death, he will go through; but, they are cowards that take a backſide and let the devil coup them in a gutter. But yet, to lead men on, here is a promiſe of two things ;

Firſt, He ſhall inherit all things; then ye ſee, that that Chriſtian's captain is a man of fair rent, 1 Cor. iii. 21. "For all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death; things preſent, or things to come," and to let us ſee he bides by the thing he has ſaid, he ſays again, "all things are yours:" ye ſee then, one has a kingdom, as Aſia, but wants health, and is lame of his feet, he has not all things. Another has ſtrength of body above any living, yet had many troubles, and wanted his eyes as Samſon, and therefore had not all things. O the buſineſs Adam's ſons are at for inheritance: here a male-line, there a lairdſhip, that they call their all things. I think this is a greedy ſtile and proud-like lordſhip or lairdſhip