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Such an account doth the Apostle Paul, that Evangelical Moses, bring in concerning the whole visible world, when it was as it were set forth to sale in all its splendour and gallantry, to what Merchants would bid for it, Paul would offer nothing, but passeth by in an holy scorn, and will not so much as cast an eye upon it;¹

1. 1Oculo irrotorto. 1. Cor. 4.13.

We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.

How much doth the judgment of Saints differ from the judgment of the men of the world, the [Greek or Hebrew], things which fall under sight and sense were Paul's nothings, but they are the men of the worlds only solid substances and realities, è contra, the [Greek or Hebrew], invisible things of eternity, they were in the holy Apostle his estimation, the only entities and real beings, but in the judgment of the men of the world, they are the only chimera's and shadows, which have no more being than what they have in the fancy: so far were the things of the world from being able to make up an happiness for a rational Creature, that the Apostle accounts them not worth a look, unless it be of contempt and derision, which account that ye may know did not proceed from pride and singularity, but from a well-informed judgment, he gives us the ground or reason of it, scil. the perishing nature of things visible, they are [Greek or Hebrew], but for the present moment, as Moses (even now) summed them up, for a season, ⟨p. 105⟩(and how short a season no man can tell.)