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Hence let Gods people learn not to be greedy in ¹their desires after outward pleasures; they are but the portion of dogs and reprobates. It is true, godly men may have them, but never as their portion, God hath afforded you better pleasures, hath he not reserved better things for you? As when we enjoy outward prosperity, we must not bless our selves in it, because it is that which wicked men have; so when we are afflicted, our hearts must not be dejected, because we are only deprived of that, which God gives most many times to those that he hates most. God will keep his people from being prevailed against by this temptation. David was in this temptation, Psal. 73. but he says, verse 23. that God held him by his right hand: When men see how the world lives in pleasure, and the Saints are afflicted, they are in danger of stumbling, but God holds his own by his right hand, that they fall not.

Hence let Gods people learn not to be greedy in ¹their desires after outward pleasures; they are but the portion of dogs and reprobates. It is true, godly men may have them, but never as their portion, God hath afforded you better pleasures, hath he not reserved better things for you? As when we enjoy outward prosperity, we must not bless our selves in it, because it is that which wicked men have; so when we are afflicted, our hearts must not be dejected, because we are onely deprived of that, which God gives most many times to those that he hates most. God will keep his people from being prevailed against by this temptation. David was in this temptation, Psal. 73. but he says, verse 23. that God held him by his right hand: When men see how the world lives in pleasure, and the Saints are afflicted, they are in danger of stumbling, but God holds his own by his right hand, that they fall not.

1. 1Use 1. Ne magni pendamus terrenam faelicitatem quae malis etiam perunque conceditur. August. lib. 2. de civ. Dei. c. 23.