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

¹Is it so that wicked men have a portion here, and that is all they shall have. 1. then, we may see a reason, why the men of the world are so cunning in the things of the world, why they can make a better shift for themselves, in the world, then other men can, why, here is their portion, their very happiness, and good is here; no marvel though they speed so well as they do:² We have not received the spirit of the world (saith the Apostle,) we cannot tell how to shift in the world, so as other men do, for indeed we look further then these things; you know a swine though it goes away abroad all day wandering up and down, it knows the way to the trough at night; but if a ⟨p. 46⟩sheep wander a little out of his place, it knows not how to come back again, but wanders up and down till it be lost; swine are not so, ungodly men, though they go up and down wandering, they know how to come to their trough at night, they have better skill in the world they are more artificial in the things of this life, as the Scripture speaks, the children of this world, are wiser in their generation, then the children of light; why is it? why, their portion is in this world.

¹Is it so that wicked men have a portion here, and that is all they shall have. 1. then, we may see a reason, why the men of the world are so cuning in the things of the world, why they can make a better shift for themselves, in the world, then other men can, why, here is their portion, their very happinesse, and good is here; no mervail though they speed so well as they do:² We have not received the spirit of the world (saith the Apostle,) we cannot tell how to shift in the world, so as other men doe, for indeed we look further then these things; you know a swine though it goes away abroad all day wandering up and down, it knows the way to the trough at night; but if a ⟨p. 46⟩sheep wander a little out of his place, it knows not how to come back again, but wanders up and down till it be lost; swine are not so, ungodly men, though they go up and down wandering, they know how to come to their trough at night, they have better skill in the world they are more artificiall in the things of this life, as the Scripture speaks, the children of this world, are wiser in their generation, then the children of light; why is it? why, their portion is in this world.