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

¹If men have their portion in this world, here is the reason why there is such a stir in the world by men, to maintain this their portion; what rending and tearing is there among men to preserve their estates? especially if they have a higher portion in the world then others; O, what a deal of stir is there to keep up their honour and reputation. There was such striving for the Popedom in Henry the fourth his days, that it cost many thousand mens lives. Such blustering men make to be great in the world, it cost the blood of twenty thousand persons merely to satisfy the wills of a few; certainly one day the world will be wiser, and understand that they are men, and not dogs, to be subject to the humours and lusts of others, and that no man hath now any further power over them, but what they have by agreement from them, I hope men ⟨p. 64⟩will be wise enough to understand this, and not sacrifice their lives, for the satisfying of the wills of a few men in the world; it is their God, and do you say what ails me, when you have taken away my Gods? here is the ground of all the stirs and combustions in the world, because carnal hearts look upon what they enjoy as their portion.

¹If men have their portion in this world, here is the reason why there is such a stir in the world by men, to maintain this their portion; what rending and tearing is there among men to preserve their estates? especially if they have a higher portion in the world then others; O, what a deal of stir is there to keep up their honour and reputation. There was such striving for the Popedome in Henry the fourth his dayes, that it cost many thousand mens lives. Such blustring men make to be great in the world, it cost the bloud of twenty thousand persons meerely to satisfy the wills of a few; certainly one day the world will be wiser, and understand that they are men, and not dogs, to be subject to the humours and lusts of others, and that no man hath now any further power over them, but what they have by agreement from them, I hope men ⟨p. 64⟩will be wise enough to understand this, and not sacrifice their lives, for the satisfying of the wills of a few men in the world; it is their God, and do you say what ayles me, when you have taken away my Gods? here is the ground of all the stirs and combustions in the world, because carnall hearts look upon what they enjoy as their portion.