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

And then your hearts will reproach you when you come to die; O when you come to die, and you lie upon your Death-bed; I had the World, and the things of the World, but I did not use the World as if I used it not: As the Mother said, Where's the Child in the Cradle, when the house was on fire, and they had been getting out the goods, and pulling things out of the Fire: But at last, Where's the Child in the Cradle? So at last, when we come to die, O where's my Soul all this while? Your heart will reproach you when you come to die; and blessed is that man or woman whose heart shall not reproach him when he comes to die.

And then your hearts will reproach you when you come to die; O when you come to die, and you lie upon your Death-bed; I had the World, and the things of the World, but I did not use the World as if I us'd it not: As the Mother said, Where's the Child in the Cradle, when the house was on fire, and they had been getting out the goods, and pulling things out of the Fire: But at last, Where's the Child in the Cradle? So at last, when we come to die, O where's my Soul all this while? Your heart will reproach you when you come to die; and blessed is that man or woman whose heart shall not reproach him when he comes to die.

Yea, let me say this farther, you cannot more prejudice the thing you love, nor wrong your selves more, than by loving it too much, and not using of it as if you used it not: A man leans upon a stick, and if it be too weak it breaks, he breaks the stick, and it runs into his hand; the stick suffers, and his hand suffers: So when we come to lean upon a thing, and don't use it as if we used it not, it ⟨p. 148⟩breaks, and it runs into our hands: Look into the 23 of Ezek. and you shall see there how the Jews lovers, and what they rested on, run into their hands, v. 5. And Aholah played the Harlot when she was mine, and she doted on her Lovers, on the Assyrians her Neighbours, v. 7. Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted, with all their Idols she defiled her self: What becomes of her? Read v. 9. Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians upon whom she dted: Wherefore? Why she doted upon the Assyrians her lovers, and I have given her into the hand of the Assyrians her lovers, upon whom she doted: Why, when a people shall dote upon this and that, God will give them into the hand of their lovers, and make them to run into their hands: 'tis a most prejudicial thing to dote upon any thing in this World.