Gospel-conversation

3. Here is their portion, it is confined to this life; Why so? Because they choose it themselves; and in that they have no wrong; make choice of this Portion themselves: Moses, (speaking to the people, saith he) I set before you life and death: So do the Ministers of God in preaching to you, they set before you Life and Death: What do you choose? Now you choose the way that goes out of life, and into death; you have but your choice; you choose Vanity to be your portion, God doth you no wrong to give you Vanity: Now you that will indent with God for your penny, you cannot take it ill, if when the end of the day comes, God puts you off with your penny; you know those in the Vineyard, that agreed for their penny, they began to murmur indeed, when they came to receive their wages; but saith the Master of the Vineyard, Did you not agree with me so? So you agree with God, all you intend in Gods service, is, that you may have some present comfort in this world, you dare not trust God for the future; and here is that that God will show His infinite displeasure against the sin of distrust by, that when the Lord propounds now in this day of Grace, such glorious and blessed things to the children of men, and (for ought you know) any of you may have your portion in them, as well as others, and yet you dare not trust God for those gracious things; you think rather with your selves, let ⟨p. 312⟩me have somewhat now, somewhat for the present, some present pay; the reward that you talk of, which is to come, I know not whether they be imaginations yea, or no; therefore you mean (it seems) to serve God for your present pay, and present pay you shall have, and no more. There are some servants that are your day-servants, they serve you so as they expect their pay at night, and perhaps you give them their two shillings at night, and there is an end: but there are other servants now that will serve you in expectation of some reversions, and expectations of honour, especially when they serve Noblemen, and Princes, though they have no present pay given them at night, yet they go on cheerfully in their service, they expect some great Reversions, as Leases and preferments, they may have afterwards, and now though they have not their two shillings a day as the others have, yet when the other befalls them, they are made rich men, they and their posterities:

3. Here is their portion, it is confin'd to this life; Why so? Because they chuse it themselves; and in that they have no wrong; make choice of this Portion themselves: Moses, (speaking to the people, saith he) I set before you life and death: So do the Ministers of God in preaching to you, they set before you Life and Death: What do you chuse? Now you chuse the way that goes out of life, and into death; you have but your choice; you chuse Vanity to be your portion, God doth you no wrong to give you Vanity: Now you that will indent with God for your peny, you cannot take it ill, if when the end of the day comes, God puts you off with your peny; you know those in the Vineyard, that agreed for their peny, they began to murmur indeed, when they came to receive their wages; but saith the Master of the Vinyard, Did you not agree with me so? So you agree with God, all you intend in Gods service, is, that you may have some present comfort in this world, you dare not trust God for the future; and here is that that God will shew His infinit displeasure against the sin of distrust by, that when the Lord propounds now in this day of Grace, such glorious and blessed things to the children of men, and (for ought you know) any of you may have your portion in them, as well as others, and yet you dare not trust God for those gracious things; you think rather with your selves, let