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

There is a 3. fold right. 1. a right of justice, that we may claim to a thing as a due: what is not your right, you cannot claim. 2. there is a right of Creation, that God gave to man at first: you have lost that right now. 3. there is a right of promise; God hath promised all good things to his people; you have not that right neither: you have neither the right of justice to claim, nor the right of your Creation, nor the right of promise; what right then?

There is a fourth right, and that I ⟨p. 76⟩confess you have, which is a right of donation; God is pleased to give to you. And thus you hold all your honours, and estates, that are ungodly men; just thus, even as a man that is condemned to dye, and there being a little reprieving for 2. or 3. days, before his execution, the Prince out of his indulgence gives order to have provision made for him, according to his quality, that if he be a Gentleman, he should have such provision, if a Knight, or a Nobleman, he shall have provision according to his quality, till his execution; now no man can say, this man usurps, though he hath forfeited all his right to his lands and estates, yet if the King will give him this refreshment, he is no usurper, but it is a poor right he hath, it is a right of donation; and thus God gives the ungodly men in this world their right to outward comforts; you have your portion, but you see how you hold it.

There is a fourth right, and that I ⟨p. 76⟩confesse you have, which is a right of donation; God is pleased to give to you. And thus you hold all your honours, and estates, that are ungodly men; just thus, even as a man that is condemned to dye, and there being a little reprieving for 2. or 3. dayes, before his execution, the Prince out of his indulgence gives order to have provision made for him, according to his qualitie, that if he be a Gentleman, he should have such provision, if a Knight, or a Nobleman, he shall have provision according to his qualitie, till his execution; now no man can say, this man usurpes, though he hath forfeited all his right to his lands and estates, yet if the King will give him this refreshment, he is no usurper, but it is a poor right he hath, it is a right of donation; and thus God gives the ungodly men in this world their right to outward comforts; you have your portion, but you see how you hold it.