Use 1 It may serve to teach all, young and old, to take up this exhortation, love not the World; no man is addicted to the World, but he is in more slavery and bondage, than any galley-slave, whose hands may be bound, and his feet shackled, but his heart is free, and he desires freedom from that slavery; but a worldly man is employed and busied in the World, and his body is a slave to it, and not only so, but his very mind and heart is a captive to the World, he cannot be free to any good and spiritual employment, neither can he so much as desire freedom from this slavery; what a miserable thing is it, to see a man employed altogether for his body and estate, and have no heart at all to that which is good? O! they may not be suffered to come to sermons, they have other things to attend to; for men to be thus enthralled it is a misery; and if they come to the Word, yet the World fills their heads, that either they cannot attend to it, or if they do, after they are gone, the World steals all away; therefore I say again, love not the World, if riches increase, set not your hearts upon them, nor count them your chiefest good, but be sure first to seek the Kingdom of God, and if God bestow any worldly blessings upon you, take it as a pledge of his love, and be thankful to him, and acknowledge your own unworthiness, Gen. 32.10. as Jacob there did, and make them a means to help you forward in Gods service: as it is with Seamen, the deeper and wider the Sea is, the more free they are, and less careful, so if you have abundance of wealth to swim and wallow in, you must use more liberty in good courses, and take no care for winds and storms, you ⟨p. 111⟩have Sea-room enough, set not your hearts on them, but go on in a more speedy course of Christianity.
Ʋse 1 It may serve to teach all, young and old, to take up this exhortation, love not the World; no man is addicted to the World, but he is in more slavery and bondage, than any gally-slave, whose hands may be bound, and his feet shackled, but his heart is free, and he desires freedome from that slavery; but a worldly man is imployed and busied in the World, and his body is a slave to it, and not only so, but his very mind and heart is a captive to the World, hee cannot be free to any good and spiritual imployment, neither can he so much as desire freedome from this slavery; what a miserable thing is it, to see a man imployed altogether for his body and estate, and have no heart at all to that which is good? O! they may not be suffered to come to sermons, they have other things to attend to; for men to be thus inthralled it is a misery; and if they come to the Word, yet the World fills their heads, that either they cannot attend to it, or if they do, after they are gone, the World steals all away; therefore I say again, love not the World, if riches increase, set not your hearts upon them, nor count them your chiefest good, but be sure first to seek the Kingdom of God, and if God bestow any worldly blessings upon you, take it as a pledge of his love, and be thankfull to him, and acknowledge your own unworthinesse, Gen. 32.10. as Jacob there did, and make them a means to help you forward in Gods service: as it is with Seamen, the deeper and wider the Sea is, the more free they are, and lesse carefull, so if you have abundance of wealth to swim and wallow in, you must use more liberty in good courses, and take no care for winds and storms, you ⟨p. 111⟩have Sea-room enough, set not your hearts on them, but go on in a more speedy course of Christianity.
