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The head of a worldly man, that is, the chief of his desires, and joys, and endeavours, it is in the riches of the world, and there a godly mans feet stand, and he counts them so low, as he counts the dirt of his feet better: Surely it is but a little room that riches have in the heart of a godly man, when as the very reproaches of Christ are more to him then all the riches of the world: The very filth that is cast upon him while he is in his way, he does count better. When we would express our most vile esteem of any thing, we use to say, We prize it no more then the dirt under our feet; then surely a godly man must have a vile esteem of the things of the world, ⟨p. 461⟩for he does not so much prize it as the dirt that is cast upon him. And so the Psalmist in Psal. 119, 118. speaking of the vile esteem that God hath of the wicked, says he, He treads them down under his feet, and puts them away as dross: Gods servants are compared in Mal. 3. 17. to jewels that are scattered up and down in the dirt, for so the phrase does intimate, but the dirt that is upon his jewels, is highlier esteemed by Gods people, then all the jewels of the world: The scrapings and washings that come from the trenchers of men, is the sweetest food unto a Swine; so that which is the sweetest and most delightful things of the men of the world, it is meaner then the basest thing that does belong unto the sufferings of Gods people. O the advantage that the Saints have above the men of the world! Were there any great matter in the things of the world, howsoever esteemed by men, it could not be that the very reproaches of Gods people could be counted better; but whatsoever esteem the men of the world have of them, it appears by this there is no great matter in them.

The head of a worldly man, that is, the chief of his desires, and joys, and endeavors, it is in the riches of the world, and there a godly mans feet stand, and he counts them so low, as he counts the dirt of his feet better: Surely it is but a little room that riches have in the heart of a godly man, when as the very reproaches of Christ are more to him then all the riches of the world: The very filth that is cast upon him while he is in his way, he does count better. When we would express our most vile esteem of any thing, we use to say, We prize it no more then the dirt under our feet; then surely a godly man must have a vile esteem of the things of the world,