CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Fourthly, The knowing and thinking this that they are not of the world will make them be content and patient under the afflictions and troubles they meet with in the world; For seeing they are not of the world they matter not how it is with them; Their happiness and misery is not bound up in this Orb; They are Pilgrims and Strangers, and no wonder if such do not matter the accommodations ⟨p. 457⟩they find in the way;¹ If they come to an unfurnished Inn they will make a shift, they will say, it is but for a night, and thus if we are not of the world, though God lay this chastisement upon us, though he raise up that trouble against us, yet it's but a night, they are not of this Country, and therefore cannot be undone here.

Fourthly, The knowing and thinking this that they are not of the world will make them be content and patient under the afflictions and troubles they meet with in the world; For seeing they are not of the world they matter not how it is with them; Their happinesse and misery is not bound up in this Orb; They are Pilgrims and Strangers, and no wonder if such do not matter the accomodations ⟨p. 457⟩they finde in the way;¹ If they come to an unfurnished Inne they will make a shift, they will say, it is but for a night, and thus if we are not of the world, though God lay this chastisement upon us, though he raise up that trouble against us, yet it's but a night, they are not of this Countrey, and therefore cannot be undone here.

1. 1II. Often reflecting upon this will bring much Consolation, Considering