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Could the world be thought thy Servant, (which is indeed thy Master. Oh Worldlings, as Christs Maxim inferreth. No man can serve two masters: none indeed; for he that hath God for his obeyed Master, hath for his obeying Servant the world;) yet is it but a vagrant and runagate servant. It hath a madding mind, and a gadding foot. And though by the greatness of the stature and proportion, it may promise able service, yet it will be gone when thou hast most need of it. Neither will it slip away empty, but rob thee of thy best Jewels, carry away thy peace, content, joy, happiness, soul with it. Behold the Cosmopolite;¹ Luke 12. planting, transplanting, rebuilding, studying for room to lay up his fruites; Non in visceribus pauperum, not in the bowels of the poor, but in his enlarged Barnes, if ever their capacity could answer his enlarged hart. He builds neither Church nor Hospital (either in cultum Christi, or culturam Christiani, to the service of Christ, or comfort of any Christian) but Barnes. He minds only Horreum suum, & Hordeum suum, His barn and his Barley. Behold at last he promiseth his Soul peace,² ease, mirth, security: but when his Chickens were scarce hatched, whereon he long •ate & thought to sit long brooding, he hears a fatal voice confiscating his goods, and himself too. Thou fool, this night shall thy soul be required of thee: ³then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided? No marvel then if the Soul be famished, when she is only fed with such fugitive meat which vanisheth like Tantalus Apples, or Ixion's cloud in the Poet: and like Medicines rather then food, or like poisons rather then medicines, wash away the good they find, and leave the bad (made yet worse by their accession) behind them.

Could the world be thought thy Seruant, (which is indeed thy Master. Oh Worldlings, as Christs Maxime inferreth. No man can serue two masters: none indeed; for he that hath God for his obeyed Master, hath for his obeying Seruant the world;) yet is it but a vagrant and runnagate seruant. It hath a madding mind, and a gadding foote. And though by the greatnesse of the stature and proportion, it may promise able seruice, yet it will bee gone when thou hast most neede of it. Neither will it slippe away empty, but robbe thee of thy best Iewels, carry away thy peace, content, ioy, happinesse, soule with it. Behold the Cosmopolite;