That the thoughts of the greatest and wisest of the world, are usually but for and about the world, The poor receive the gospel, and the rich receive the world. As a godly man is described by his faith, Abraham believed God: By fear, by uprightness, by justice, as Job in the first chapter of this Book, by meekness, ⟨p. 419⟩as Moses, &c. by the heavenliness of their spirits and conversations: Our conversation is in Heaven, Phil. 3.20. So worldly men are described by their proper studies. Kings, Counsellors and Princes, build Palaces, gather riches, heap up gold. They buy, they sell, they build, they plant, they eat, they drink, as the worldly world is pictured, Luk. 17.27, 28. In the 17th. Psalm, great men are called, the men of the world, as if they were for nothing but the world, or all for the world; as if all their provisions were laid in for this world, so it follows, who have their portion in this life, ver. 14. It is a sad thing to have received our portion, It is said of the rich man, Son, remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things, thou hast had thy portion. In Psal. 49.11. It is said concerning such men, that their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations, and they call their lands after their own names. Their inward thoughts are upon these things; It is somewhat a strange kind of speaking, to say, their inward thoughts, for there are no thoughts but inward, thoughts are all wrought in the secret shop of the heart. But there is an elegance in it, the Hebrew is their inwards, their internals; 1Their inwards are, how they may get themselves a name and riches, not only are their thoughts about these things, but the very inmost of their thoughts, the most retired thoughts and recesses of the soul are about these things, these lie nearest to their hearts; As the story saith of Queen Mary, when she died, she had them open her and they should find Calais at her heart, It was a pitiful case, that a rotten Town should lie (where Christ ought) at the heart of such a Princess; The heart is the place where Christ and the thoughts of Heaven should lodge: All below Heaven should be below our hearts. But as a godly mans inward thoughts are for Heaven and the things of Heaven, for grace and for holiness;
That the thoughts of the greatest and wisest of the world, are usually but for and about the world, The poore receive the gospell, and the rich receive the world. As a godly man is described by his faith, Abraham beleeved God: By feare, by uprightnesse, by justice, as Job in the first chapter of this Booke, by meeknesse, ⟨p. 419⟩as Moses, &c. by the heavenlinesse of their spirits and conversations: Our conversation is in Heaven, Phil. 3.20. So worldly men are described by their proper studies. Kings, Counsellours and Princes, build Pallaces, gather riches, heape up gold. They buy, they sell, they build, they plant, they eate, they drinke, as the worldly world is pictur'd, Luk. 17.27, 28. In the 17th. Psalme, great men are called, the men of the world, as if they were for nothing but the world, or all for the world; as if all their provisions were laid in for this world, so it followes, who have their portion in this life, ver. 14. It is a sad thing to have received our portion, It is said of the rich man, Sonne, remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things, thou hast had thy portion. In Psal. 49.11. It is said concerning such men, that their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations, and they call their lands after their own names. Their inward thoughts are upon these things; It is somewhat a strange kind of speaking, to say, their inward thoughts, for there are no thoughts but inward, thoughts are all wrought in the secret shop of the heart. But there is an elegancy in it, the Hebrew is their inwards, their internalls; 1Their inwards are, how they may get themselves a name and riches, not only are their thoughts about these things, but the very inmost of their thoughts, the most retired thoughts and recesses of the soule are about these things, these lie neerest to their hearts; As the story saith of Queen Mary, when she died, she had them open her and they should finde Calice at her heart, It was a pitifull case, that a rotten Towne should lie (where Christ ought) at the heart of such a Princesse; The heart is the place where Christ and the thoughts of Heaven should lodge: All below Heaven should be below our hearts. But as a godly mans inward thoughts are for Heaven and the things of Heaven, for grace and for holinesse;
- 1Internum vel interiora.
