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

For first, Who so hath this eternity set upon his heart he will not be immoderately and inordinately desirous after these things below. ¹As the beams of the sun will put out the fire, so will the thoughts and affections about eternal things, overcome temporal. The Apostle, 1 Cor. 7. presseth all upon an hard duty, To marry as if we married not, to buy as if we bought not; Why so? because the time here is short, eternity is coming upon us: And thus those holy Patriarchs mentioned Heb. 11. they accounted themselves pilgrims and strangers, and they sought a City to come, not built with hands. Thou complainest thy heart is so full of deadness, dullness, so full of the world, the cares and distractions thereof devour thee up, there is nothing will help thee against this temptation, then often thoughts and affections about eternity.

For first, Who so hath this eternity set upon his heart he will not be immoderatly and inordinatly desirous after these things below. ¹As the beams of the sunne will put out the fire, so will the thoughts and affections about eternall things, overcome temporall. The Apostle, 1 Cor. 7. presseth all upon an hard duty, To marry as if we married not, to buy as if we bought not; Why so? because the time here is short, eternity is coming upon us: And thus those holy Patriarchs mentioned Heb. 11. they accounted themselves pilgrims and strangers, and they sought a City to come, not built with hands. Thou complainest thy heart is so full of deadnesse, dulnesse, so full of the world, the cares and distractions thereof devour thee up, there is nothing will help thee against this temptation, then often thoughts and affections about eternity.

1. 11. A low esteem of the world.