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Oh that the sons of the earth should thus shame the heirs of heaven, ¹that an earthly inheritance should be more valued by sense than the heavenly is by faith, more care taken to be sure of dirt and dung, thick clay, than of that which is infinitely more valuable than coral or pearls, whose price is above rubies, ²as bought not with silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Jesus Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot.

Oh that the sons of the earth should thus shame the heirs of heaven, ¹that an earthly inheritance should be more valu•d by sense than the heavenly is by faith, more care taken to be sure of dirt and dung, thick clay, than of that which is infinitely more valuable than c•ral or pearls, whose price is above rubies, ²as bought not with silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Jesus Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot.

1. 1Hab. 2.6.
2. 21 Pet. 1.18, 19

Were this error the fruit only of incapacity, as it is in little Infants, that cannot judge what belongs to their present or future good, verily it were a thousand pities, an infelicity upon the humane nature to be lamented with tears of blood; but that rational Creatures, furnished with such noble faculties, for such divine and heavenly purposes, should through a mere brutish sensuality be so willingly content to remain at such uncertainties, is the most dreadful prodigy that can possibly enter into the heart of man!