Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

1. Consider, that all other evil things are in Gods account as very nothing; verily, every man at his best estate is altogether vanity; not only man, but every man; ¹nor every man in his worst condition, but every man at his best estate; nor every man: man at his best estate is little worth, but every man at his best estate is vanity, emptiness, nothing; it may be so in part, nay, but in every part, he is wholly, totally, altogether vanity; would any man think, that a great, rich, honourable Man, whom we look upon with such high admiring thoughts, should be laid thus low in Gods esteem? O wonder, wonder! and yet 'tis no such wonder, but one day you shall find the experience of this truth your selves. Rich men have slept their sleeps, and none of the men of might have found their hands. ²or as others render it, they have found nothing in their hands; that is, rich men have passed over this life as men do pass over a sleep, imagining themselves to have golden mountains and rocks of diamond; but when they awake at the day of death, they find themselves to have nothing. Why Christian, wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? ³1. Observe that riches are not; they are nothing, those things that make men great in the eyes of the world, are nothing in the eyes of God. 2. Observe that God would not have us so much as set our eyes upon them, they are not objects worth the looking on. 3. Observe with what indignation he speaks against those that will set their eyes upon these vanities, Wilt thou set thine eyes upon a thing which is not? q. d. what a vain, unreasonable, sottish, senseless thing is this?

1. Consider, that all other evil things are in Gods account as very nothing; verily, every man at his best estate is altogether vanity; not only man, but every man; ¹nor every man in his worst condition, but every man at his best estate; nor every man: man at his best estate is little worth, but every man at his best estate is vanity, emptiness, nothing; it may be so in part, nay, but in every part, he is wholly, totally, altogether vanity; would any man think, that a great, rich, honourable Man, whom we look upon with such high admiring thoughts, should be laid thus low in Gods esteem? O wonder, wonder! and yet 'tis no such wonder, but one day you shall find the experience of this truth your selves. Rich men have slept their sleeps, and none of the men of might have found their hands.