The way to true happiness in a serious treatise /

Oh abuse unsufferable! to see a heaven-born soul abased to the filthiest drudgery, to see the glory of Gods creation, the chief of the ways of God, the Lord of the Universe, a lapping with the prodigal at the trough, or licking up with greediness the most loathsome vomit. Was it such a lamentation to see those that did ⟨p. 64⟩feed delicately, to sit desolate in the streets? and the precious sons of Zion comparable to fine gold, to be esteemed as earthen pitchers; and those that were clothed in scarlet to embrace dunghills? Lam. 4. 2, 5. And is it not fearful much more, to see the only thing that hath immortality in this lower world, and carried the stamp of God, to become as a vessel wherein there is no pleasure? (which is but the modest expression of the vessel, men put to the most sordid use.) Oh indignity intolerable! Better thou wert dashed in a thousand pieces, than continue to be abused to so filthy a service.

Oh abuse unsufferable! to see a heavenborn soul abased to the filthiest drudgery, to see the glory of Gods creation, the chief of the ways of God, the Lord of the Universe, a lapping with the prodigal at the trough, or licking up with greediness the most loathsom vomit. Was it such a lamentation to see those that did ⟨p. 64⟩feed delicately, to sit desolate in the streets? and the precious sons of Sion comparable to fine gold, to be esteemed as earthen pitchers; and those that were cloathed in scarlet to embrace dunghils? Lam. 4. 2, 5. And is it not fearful much more, to see the only thing that hath immortality in this lower world, and carried the stamp of God, to become as a vessel wherein there is no pleasure? (which is but the modest expression of the vessel, men put to the most sordid use.) Oh indignity intolerable! Better thou wert dashed in a thousand pieces, than continue to be abused to so filthy a service.