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

5. A man that uses the world as if he used it not, he is sometimes more afraid of prosperity than of adversity. All men are afraid of adversity, but a man that uses the world as if he used it not, he is sometimes more afraid of prosperity: I am sure of this, he will fear God in prosperity, and love God in Adversity. Now therefore, would you use the world as if you used it not, remember these five things.

But secondly by way of Means. If you would use the world and the things thereof, as if you used it not; then labour to possess your hearts much with Gods Allsufficiency. In Psal. 62. If riches increase, set not your hearts upon them, once and twice have I heard it, that power belongs unto God. And mercy also unto the Lord: God's All-sufficient, there's enough in God alone, Come O my Soul, possess your heart with this, Ah, there's enough in God alone. Still be pressing this upon your own souls, There's enough in God alone, Gods All-sufficient.

Secondly, Look upon the things of the World, with the prospective of the Scripture; not with one of the worlds glasses: Not with the worlds Multiplying-glass. The world, and the glass of the world; If you look upon the world with the glass of the world, there you shall find that the things of the world are called Goods, and they are called Substance, An Estate and Substance. But look upon the world with the Prospective of the Scriptures, there they are called Shadows, there they are called Vanities, there they are called Things that are not. Whats the reason that people are so much in love with the things of the world, but because they look upon them with the multiplying glass of the world, and not with the glass, and prospective of the Scripture?