Some general directions for a comfortable walking with God delivered in the lecture at…Some generall directions for a comfortable walking with God deliuered in the lecture at…

10. One Star doth incomparably exceed in beauty and worth a golden earth: and if thou be truly Gods, and have thy foot already upon the Moon, as thou oughtest, thou¹ shalt hereafter tread everlastingly upon thousands of them. Disdain then in the mean time, to let thy heavenly spirit dote upon those baser hoards of shining earth, which are making themselves wings to fly away, as an Eagle toward Heaven: for riches are like transitory streams, which posting by the side of a City, no man can stay. Were it not a senseless and brainless endeavour and expectation, for a Town to hope and assay to keep with them the hasty current of a mighty River, which none of an hundred Townes before could hold? And doest thou expect any constancy of² abode with thee of that thick clay, which hath passed through so many hands before? Neither is it so much thine, as the Worlds. A Dog follows two men: it is not known to ⟨p. 293⟩whom he belongs, until they be parted. Upon the arrest of death, thy wealth leaves thee everlastingly, and cleaves unto the World; and therefore it was worldly wealth.

10. One Starre doth incomparably exceed in beauty and worth a golden earth: and if thou be truly Gods, and haue thy foote already vpon the Moone, as thou oughtest, thou¹ shalt hereafter tread euerlastingly vpon thousands of them. Disdaine then in the meane time, to let thy heauenly spirit dote vpon those baser hoards of shining earth, which are making themselues wings to flie away, as an Eagle toward Heauen: for riches are like transitorie streames, which posting by the side of a Citie, no man can stay. Were it not a sencelesse and brainelesse endeauour and expectation, for a Towne to hope and assay to keepe with them the hasty current of a mighty Riuer, which none of an hundred Townes before could hold? And doest thou expect any constancy of² abode with thee of that thicke clay, which hath passed thorow so many hands before? Neither is it so much thine, as the Worlds. A Dog followes two men: it is not knowne to ⟨p. 293⟩