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What are your hearts upon? I urge it upon you as in the name of God, and answer in your secret thoughts, What are your hearts upon? either upon ¹things that are for a season, or eternal? Things that are eternal, you look upon them as high notional things, that never took up your thoughts much: but to go into company, and eat, and drink, and laugh, and get money; these are the things that are but ²for a season, and these your hearts close with, and bless themselves in. What are become of all those that have had as great dealings, and as many merry meetings as you, and have satisfied the flesh as much as you? they are gone, rotten in their graves, and their souls it may be crying under the wrath of an infinite God, and all their bravery and delight at an end; would you be in their condition? It is a good observation of Abulensis, to show to us the vanity of all worldly excellency, that those who have been the most glorious, in what man accounts glorious and excellent, have had inglorious ends, by which their glory hath been stained; and thereby our hearts might be taken off from such things, and set upon those things which are so glorious as they will make us for ever glorious. He instances in Sampson for strength, and yet what a contemptible end had he? So Absalom for beauty; Ahithophel for policy; Asael for swiftness; Alexander for great conquests, and yet after twelve years poisoned. He instances likewise in Kingdoms; the Chaldean, Persian, Grecian, Roman, how soon were they gone? It is a notable speech Augustine hath: Go, (says he) and mark and attend the Sepulchres of rich men, and when you see their rotten bones, consider who they ⟨p. 327⟩once were, and know they do cry unto you; O you men, why do you seek so much to satisfy your selves in these fading things, and heap upon your selves vexation, to attain happiness for your selves in these things? Consider our bones here, and be struck with astonishment, to abhor your luxury and covetousness; for, says he, they cry thus to you, You now are, and we were, and time will be, when you shall be what we are.

What are your hearts upon? I urge it upon you as in the name of God, and answer in your secret thoughts, What are your hearts upon? either upon ¹