Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London

First, If the world, and the things thereof be so our own, as if they were not our own; then why should we not use the world, and the things thereof, as if we used them not? why now, though the things of the world are our own in regard of propriety, yet if you look into the sixteenth of Luke, you will find that they are called not our own, ver. 11. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous Mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? and if ye have not been faithful in that which is another mans, who will give you that which is your own: That which is another mans, that's the same with the unrighteous Mammon; who shall give unto you that which is your own? spiritual things are our own; the things of God are here called our own; properly that is our own which we can carry up and down with us, omnia mea mecum porto, that is our own which we can carry away with us, out of the world with us, that's truly our own: But now, as for the things of this world, they have wings, yea Solomon saith, they make themselves wings: If you clip their wings they will grow again; they make themselves wings, and fly away; and they have the wing of an Eagle, strong wings for to fly away. Now if that the things of this world be so our own, as if they were not our own, why should we not use the world, as if we used it not?

First, If the world, and the things thereof be so our own, as if they were not our own; then why should we not use the world, and the things thereof, as if we us'd them not? why now, though the things of the world are our own in regard of propriety, yet if you look into the sixteenth of Luke, you will find that they are called not our own, ver. 11. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous Mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? and if ye have not been faithful in that which is another mans, who will give you that which is your own: That which is another mans, that's the same with the unrighteous Mammon; who shall give unto you that which is your own? spiritual things are our own; the things of God are here call'd our own; properly that is our own which we can carry up and down with us, omnia mea mecum porto, that is our own which we can carry away with us, out of the world with us, that's truly our own: But now, as for the things of this world, they have wings, yea Solomon saith, they make themselves wings: If you clip their wings they will grow again; they make themselves wings, and fly away; and they have the wing of an Eagle, strong wings for to fly away. Now if that the things of this world be so our own, as if they were not our own, why should we not use the world, as if we us'd it not?