An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…

Now you will say, What doth the holy Ghost mean ¹here? It's to hold out a very excellent Truth to us:

1. 1Aestus. Vulg.

That those men that seek to satisfy themselves with creature comforts, the thoughts of their own counsels ¹and plots, their own inventions, their own ways, they do not only deceive themselves, and will be disappointed ⟨p. 203⟩at last of what they expect; but they will find these ways of theirs to be very pestilentious; very hurtful, very dangerous, they will find that such ways as these, will undo them, will bring them to misery. Oh! how many have undone themselves with their own counsels; were it indeed that men were but merely disappointed of their vain hopes, there were a great evil in that, but if that were all it were not so much, if so be that men at last should meet with no other evil but disappointment, it were not so much, but you must not escape so, you that will feed upon the wind, and bless your selves in ²your own ways, you must expect to meet with wrath and misery, those ways that you may think to shift from danger will bring you into danger; Oh! how many upon their sick beds, and death beds, have cried out in the bitterness and trouble of their souls, for following of their own conceits, and counsels, and ways, and the ways of other men, they see how that they are undone, undone by those ways: Oh! we have fed upon the wind, and we find evil ways that pleased us then to torment us now, to bring anguish, sorrow, and trouble upon us.

That those men that seek to satisfie themselves with creature comforts, the thoughts of their own counsels