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

Or will you instance in that which you call the comfortable part of the world? What's that of all things you take the most comfort in? your Relations, the Husband in the Wife, and Parent in the Child; the fashion of these passeth away: Children pass away, Husbands pass away, and Wives pass away, Friends pass away, Relations pass away: Thus the fashion of the world passeth away; and therefore why should we not use the world as if we used it not? Pray now, when a Traveller comes to his ⟨p. 144⟩Inn, why doth he set his heart upon his bed, or his stools, or any thing that he hath in his Chamber? No, for, saith he, I pass away, and these things they pass from me: If you have a fine silver stream of water run by your door, you don't set your heart upon it; for, say you, th•s fine silver stream that glides by my door, it passeth away, why should I set my heart upon it? Thus it is with all the things here below; the things of this world they pass away, the strongest natural piece of the world, and the civil piece of the world, and the sinful piece of the world, and the Religious piece of the world, and the comfortable piece of the world, all pass away; why then should we not use the world as if we used it not? And thus you may see what there is in these reasons of the Apostle to it force this same, and that's the fourth thing.

Or will you instance in that which you call the comfortable part of the world? What's that of all things you take the most comfort in? your Relations, the Husband in the Wife, and Parent in the Child; the fashion of these passeth away: Children pass away, Husbands pass away, and Wives pass away, Friends pass away, Relations pass away: Thus the fashion of the world passeth away; and therefore why should we not use the world as if we us'd it not? Pray now, when a Traveller comes to his ⟨p. 144⟩Inn, why doth he set his heart upon his bed, or his stools, or any thing that he hath in his Chamber? No, for, saith he, I pass away, and these things they pass from me: If you have a fine silver stream of water run by your door, you dont set your heart upon it; for, say you, th•s fine silver stream that glides by my door, it passeth away, why should I set my heart upon it? Thus it is with all the things here below; the things of this world they pass away, the strongest natural piece of the world, and the civil piece of the world, and the sinful piece of the world, and the Religious piece of the world, and the comfortable piece of the world, all pass away; why then should we not use the world as if we us'd it not? And thus you may see what there is in these reasons of the Apostle to it force this same, and that's the fourth thing.