1. Sit loose from the world, that you may be able to pack up •nd be gone upon sudden warning. Here was the folly and misery of this rich man, that he had set his heart upon the world, his mind did run upon his Barns, and upon his Belly; his Goods, were his Gods, he wishes no other felicity, than to eat and be merry: If you would be sit for your great Journey to your long home, you must lay aside every weight, and in special, the encumbering and entangling, and ensnaring clog and burden of worldly affections; you must take heed to your selves, least at any time your hearts be over-charged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and the cares of this life; if you would not have that day come upon you unawares. It is said, there is a […] whose heart is in his ⟨image 6⟩Belly; would there were no such Monsters among men. Certainly, that man whose heart is in his Belly, or on his Coffer, that Idolizes his friends, or his reputation; is no more fit for the assaults of Death, than the unhappy Trojans buried in Sleep and Wine, for the Invasion of the well-appointed Greeks: or the secure Laish for the subtle Danites: or the Shechamites when sore and unwieldy, for the Sons of violence, and Instruments of cruelty. Study to be Crucified to the world, to use all earthly comforts in a mortified manner, as those that are taking their long leave, and let Death find you dead beforehand; and then let it come when it will, and do its worst.
1. Sit loose from the world, that you may be able to packup •nd be gone upon sudden warning. Here was the folly and misery of this rich man, that he had set his heart upon the world, his mind did run upon his Barns, and upon his Belly; his Goods, were his Gods, he wi•hes no other felicity, than to eat and be merry: If you would be sit for your great Journey to your long home, you must lay aside every weight, and in special, the incumbring and intangling, and insnaring clog and burthen of worldly affections; you must take heed to your selves, least at any time your hearts be over-charged with surfetting, and drunkenness, and the cares of this life; if you would not have that day come upon you unawares. It is said, there is a 〈…〉 whose heart is in his ⟨image 6⟩Belly; would there were no such Monsters among men. Certainly, that man whose heart is in his Belly, or on his Cosfer, that Idolizes his friends, or his reputation; is no more fit for the assaults of Death, than the unhappy Trojans buryed in Sleep and Wine, for the Invasion of the well-appointed Greeks: or the secure Laish for the subtle Danites: or the Shechamites when sore and unwieldy, for the Sons of violence, and Instruments of cruelty. Study to be Crucifyed to the world, to use all earthly comforts in a mortifyed manner, as those that are taking their long leave, and let Death find you dead besorehand; and then let it come when it will, and do its worst.
