And now, poor worldling, what is all your Gain and Riches in comparison of the least of these? Do you think in your judgements that there is any comparison! Or rather doth not sin and the world even brutify you, and make you lay by the use of your reason, and live as if you knew not what you know? Your Treasure is all visible, when ours is unseen, and therefore I may bid you bring it forth, and let us see it, whether indeed it be better then the Treasure of the Saints: Let us see what that is that is better then God, and everlasting glory! What! is a little fleshly ease or mirth? a little meat, and drink, and pleasure? a little more money, or space of ground to use then your neighbours have; are these the things that you will change for Heaven, and prefer before the Lord that made you? O poor miserable sinners! Are you not told that you have your good things here? but what will you have hereafter when this is gone? Luke 16. 25. When your wealth is gone, and your mirth is gone, your souls are immortal, and therefore your misery and horror will continue, and never be gone. As the wealth of the godly is within them, and above the reach of their enemies, and surer then yours, so is it the more durable, even everlasting: When all your Riches are upon the wing, even ready to be gone, and leave you in sorrow, when you are most highly valuing them, you have it now, but it is gone to morrow. [And what is the Hope of the Hypocrite though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? Job 27. 8, 9. Let the words of Christ decide the Controversy, if indeed you take him for your Judge. [Mat. 16. 2•, 25, 26, 27. If any man will come after we, let him deny himself, and take up his Cross, and follow me: ⟨p. 230⟩For whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it: For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of man shall come in the Glory of his Father with his Angels, and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
And now, poor worldling, what is all your Gain and Riches in comparison of the least of these? Do you think in your judgements that there is any comparison! Or rather doth not sin and the world even brutifie you, and make you lay by the use of your reason, and live as if you knew not what you know? Your Treasure is all visible, when ours is unseen, and therefore I may bid you bring it forth, and let us see it, whether indeed it be better then the Treasure of the Saints: Let us see what that is that is better then God, and everlasting glory! What! is a little fleshly ease or mirth? a little meat, and drink, and pleasure? a little more money, or space of ground to use then your neighbours have; are these the things that you will change for Heaven, and preser before the Lord that made you? O poor miserable sinners! Are you not told that you have your good things here? but what will you have hereafter when this is gone? Luke 16. 25. When your wealth is gone, and your mirth is gone, your souls are immortal, and therefore your misery and horrour will continue, and never be gone. As the wealth of the godly is within them, and above the reach of their enemies, and surer then yours, so is it the more durable, even everlasting: When all your Riches are upon the wing, even ready to be gone, and leave you in sorrow, when you are most highly valuing them, you have it now, but it is gone to morrow. [And what is the Hope of the Hypocrite though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? Job 27. 8, 9. Let the words of Christ decide the Controversie, if indeed you take him for your Judge. [Mat. 16. 2•, 25, 26, 27. If any man will come after we, let him deny himself, and take up his Cross, and follow me: ⟨p. 230⟩For whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it: For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of man shall come in the Glory of his Father with his Angels, and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
