The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…

2. Because they are false and deceitful, deceiving such as trust in them. They promise much content, and satisfaction, but they are so far from yielding the same, that they often bring much grief and trouble of mind.

2. Consider they are not only vanity, but vexation of Spirit, Eccles. 2. 11. Though riches are nothing in themselves, yet are they full of power and activity to inflict vexation upon the spirit of a man. For there is vexation in getting them, vexation and care in keeping, and vexation in parting with them. So that Worldliness is not only a sin, but a torment and vexation, it is its own punishment. Most sins carry a delight in their face, as this also doth; but they have a sting in their Tails: That which is so beautiful in thine eye, will be gall in thine heart, and Wormwood in thy belly. As those that live godly, so thou also that wilt live worldlily, must suffer tribulation; and through those many tribulations must thou enter into the Kingdom of everlasting darkness.

3. Consider that they are empty and unsavoury, yielding no true contentment to them who enjoy them. For how many do we see abounding with wealth, who yet have unquiet and discontented spirits? whereby it appears, that it is not in the power of outward things to satisfy the heart of man. True it is, these worldly riches promise contentment; and the Worldlings heart deceiving him, makes him believe, that when he hath raised his Estate to such a proportion, he will then rest satisfied, and contented: but when he hath obtained the Estate, where is the contentment? He shall not feel quietness in his Belly, but in the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits, Job 20. 20, 22.