Two treatises of Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs. The first of earthly-mindedness

The fifth Consideration is, The Uncertainty of all these things, Uncertain Riches. How may any Casualty come and take away from thee all the things of the earth that thy mind is upon? God sends but a little too much heat into the body, and puts thee into a fever, and where's thy delight then? thy body being either too much heated, or too much cold, what's become of all thy comfort here in this earth? Thou goest abroad, and art dangerously wounded by an enemy, what refreshing then doest thou receive from all these things? Let me tell thee, thou art in the midst of a thousand thousand Casualties here, every moment ready to take away all the Comforts of the earth; and usually at that time (observe it) when the minds of men and women are most fixed upon the earth, that's the time that God hath to strike them in those things, they be then nearest to be deprived of the Comforts of the earth, when their thoughts and minds be most set upon them. As you know it was with the Rich man in the Gospel, when he was blessing himself, and crying to his soul, Soul Soul, take thine ease, thou hast goods laid up for many years; even that night (the text saith) this message came so him, Thou fool, this night shall thy soul be taken away from thee, and then, whose shall all these things be? And at that time that Nebuchadnezzar was blessing himself in the palace that he had built for His Honour, then there comes a message to him from Heaven, so that he was presently outed of all his Court-vanities to ⟨p. 72⟩graze among the beasts of the field. So you may find it in your own experience, that God hath many times then most crossed you in the things of the earth, when your minds and hearts have been most glued to them: and it may be in mercy, yea, it's a greater mercy to be crossed of these things at such a time, than to prosper in the midst of them; for it may be a good argument that God intends good to a soul, to cross him at that time when he is most earthly. Oh! many that have been godly indeed, but yet have bin earthly minded, and have found God coming at such a time and crossing them in some earthly Contentment have seen cause to bless God for thus dealing with them. Whither was I going?