The saints inheritance and the worldlings portion representing the glorious condition of a child…

Again 5. You abuse your portion you have now, what will you do with more, who will trust you with the true riches, you abuse that you have; indeed men of the world that are wicked, and very rich, and preferred to places of honour and power, O what a deal of mischief they do in the world, what dreadful evils are they unto the earth; such men, how do they abuse their portions; why now as it is with a tooth in a mans head, a tooth indeed is preferred to have an eminent place in the head, but when the tooth comes to be rotten, painful, what do we, but pull it out, and throw it away: so though God prefers men to eminent places, when through their wickedness they grow rotten, and do hurt, the Lord plucks them out in his anger; they abuse their portion, and do a great deal of mischief, therefore must expect to be thrown away.

Again 5. You abuse your portion you have now, what will you do with more, who will trust you with the true riches, you abuse that you have; indeed men of the world that are wicked, and very rich, and preferr'd to places of honour and power, O what a deal of mischief they do in the world, what dreadfull evills are they unto the earth; such men, how do they abuse their portions; why now as it is with a tooth in a mans head, a tooth indeed is preferr'd to have an eminent place in the head, but when the tooth comes to be rotten, painfull, what do we, but pull it out, and throw it away: so though God preferres men to eminent places, when through their wickednesse they grow rotten, and do hurt, the Lord pluckes them out in his anger; they abuse their portion, and do a great deal of mischief, therefore must expect to be thrown away.

But above all, the argument is, because they have no interest in Jesus Christ; the rich treasures of the infinite ⟨p. 38⟩grace of God, are let out in Christ; God hath divers conduit pipes, (as I may say) of his grace, to let out unto his creatures; there are some lesser conduit pipes, and those conduit pipes may be opened through the general bounty of God; but now the Lord hath the great current of his eternal mercies, for some that he doth intend eternal good unto, and this great current of his, it is stopped by justice, the infinite justice of God doth stop this great current, so as it cannot be opened to have any drop of that mercy let out, until the divine justice comes to be satisfied; in the mean time the other smaller pipes run, the general bounty of God still flows; Christ therefore out of pity to mankind that they may not be put off, with these general outward comforts, he comes and satisfies Gods infinite justice, that he might open the current, the sluice of his infinite & eternal grace to others; now happy are those creatures, who have interest in the Lord Christ, for this is his work to satisfy the justice of the