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I have read of Antipater King of Macedonia, that when one presented him a Book treating of happiness, his answer was, [Greek or Hebrew], I have no leisure; you have been presented with Sermons, and now with a Book treating of heavens happiness, take heed that no earthly entanglements so take your heart, that you should put off all with such a thought, I must mind and follow my occasions; let no other things take up your heads or hearts, that you should have no liberty to your spirits to seek after these glorious things, or at least not so to seek after them as becomes things of such a high and glorious nature as these are.

I have read of Antipater King of Macedonia, that when one presented him a Book treating of happiness, his answer was, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, I have no leisure; you have been presented with Sermons, and now with a Book treating of heavens happiness, take heed that no earthly entanglements so take your heart, that you should put off all with such a thought, I must minde and follow my occasions; let no other things take up your heads or hearts, that you should have no liberty to your spirits to seek after these glorious things, or at least not so to seek after them as becomes things of such a high and glorious nature as these are.

The Apostle in 1 Tim. 6. 19. says, They that will be rich, fall into a temptation, and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition: they that set their hearts upon the creature, they must have so much of the creature, they drown themselves in the creature. As a man when he is drowning, he catcheth hold of any thing that is next him, and by fastening upon that which is next him, he loses fastening upon that which might save his life: So those that have their hearts engaged to the creature, and resolve they must have so much of the creature, they are drowning in perdition, and they catch hold upon that which is next ⟨p. 719⟩