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

¹Now the grounds, why humane and earthly glory do not arise to this heavenly, is from these particulars:

1. 1In what respects humane and earthly glory comes short of heavenly.

1. It's not a lasting, during glory: The fear and certainty of losing of it, takes off from all the lustre of it; A flour is a glorious creature, yet because quickly withered, none makes long account of it; and thus all the glorious things of man are compared to no better. The Prophet Isaiah, Isa. 40.6. and ⟨p. 609⟩John Baptist of all Sermons and truths were to proclaim this, All flesh is grass, and the flower thereof fadeth away, &c. And this was to make way for Christ, implying, that while men continued in their confidence about these things, they were too high mountains, and so no prepared path to receive Christ: As therefore our Saviour argued in another case, If the grass be so clothed with glory, that is to be cut down and withereth: so if thou art thus careful to clothe thy body with glory, that presently must become dust and worms meat, rotting in the grave, how much rather shouldst thou look to have thy soul clothed with the glorious robes of Christ, that continue for ever; call that glory, and that alone which is eternal, which will live with thee, and not die with thee.

1. It's not a lasting, during glory: The fear and certainty of losing of it, takes off from all the lustre of it; A flour is a glorious creature, yet because quickly withered, none makes long account of it; and thus all the glorious things of man are compared to no better. The Prophet Isaiah, Isa. 40.6. and ⟨p. 609⟩