4. But yet this is not the worst: but if you will needs live to the world, you must take it for your portion, and look not for any more. And therefore as ever you would not be deprived of your hopes of eternal life, and be put off with the earthly portion of the wicked, see that the world be Crucified to you, and you to the world. How poor a portion is it that worldlings do possess? Even like Nebuchadnezzar, that had his portion with the beasts, Da•. 4. 15. How soon will all their portion be spent, and then they will feed with swine, yea and be denied these very husks: For they are set in slippery places, and are brought to desolation in a moment, Psal. 73. 18, 19, 20. O how much better a portion might you have had, if you had not refused or neglected it when you had your choice? Me thinks in your greatest pleasures and abundance, it should astonish your souls to think, [This is my portion, I shall have no more.] When you are past this life, and entering into Eternity, then where is your portion! Alas, saith Conscience, I have had it already! I cannot spend it and have it too] You know what you have now; but what shall you have hereafter to all eternity? Your Portion is almost spent already, and what will you do then? Oh then▪ to think, that the Eternal glory of the Saints might have been yours, it was offered as freely to you as to them, but you have lost it by preferring the world before it, and that after a thousand convictions of ⟨p. 148⟩your folly, O what a cutting thought will this be, Luke 16. 25. To remember that you chose your good things in this life, will be a sad Remembrance, when all is gone. The Lord is the portion of his Saints inheritance, Psalm 16. 5. even their portion for ever, Psalm 73. 26. their portion in the Land of the living, Psal. 142. 5. and this was it that encouraged them to labour, patience and hope, Psalm 119. 52. Lam. 3. 24, 25, 26. But for the worldling, [The heaven shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him, the increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall slow away in the day of wrath. This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God, Job 20. 37, 38, 39.
4. But yet this is not the worst: but if you will needs live to the world, you must take it for your portion, and look not for any more. And therefore as ever you would not be deprived of your hopes of eternal life, and be put off with the earthly portion of the wicked, see that the world be Crucified to you, and you to the world. How poor a portion is it that worldlings do possess? Even like Nebucadnezar, that had his portion with the beasts, Da•. 4. 15. How soon will all their portion be spent, and then they will feed with swine, yea and be denyed these very husks: For they are set in sl•ppery places, and are brought to desolation in a moment, Psal. 73. 18, 19, 20. O how much better a portion might you have had, if you had not refused or neglected it when you had your choice? Me thinks in your greatest pleasures and abundance, it should astonish your souls to think, [This is my portion, I shall have no more.] When you are past this life, and entring into Eternity, then where is your •ortion! Alas, saith Conscience, I have had it already! I cannot spend it and have it too] You know what you have now; but what shall you have hereafter to all eternity? Your Portion is almost spent already, and what will you do then? Oh then▪ to think, that the Eternal glory of the Saints might have been yours, it was offered as freely to you as to them, but you have lost it by preferring the world before it, and that after a thousand convictions of ⟨p. 148⟩your folly, O what a cutting thought will this be, Luke 16. 25. To remember that you chose your good things in this life, will be a sad Remembrance, when all is gone. The Lord is the protion of his Saints inheritance, Psalm 16. 5. even their portion for ever, Psalm 73. 26. their portion in the Land of the living, Psal. 142. 5. and this was it that encouraged them to labour, patience and hope, Psalm 119. 52. Lam. 3. 24, 25, 26. But for the worldling, [The heaven shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him, the increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall slow away in the day of wrath. This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God, Iob 20. 37, 38, 39.
