A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

In further pursuance hereof,

2. Be not over-intent on designs for this present World; which would suppose you to count upon long abode in it. Let them be always laid with a supposition, you may this way, even, by one turn of this Key, be prevented of bringing them about; and let them be pursued with indifferency, so as that disappointment even this way, may not be a grievance. ⟨p. 80⟩A thing made up of thought and design, as our Mind and Spirit naturally is, will be designing one way or other; nor ought we to attempt that violence upon our own Natures, as to endeavour the stupefying of the intelligent, designing Mind, which the Author of Nature hath put into us. Only let us so lay our designs, as that how many soever we form, that may be liable to this sort of disappointment; we may still have one greater and more important, so regularly and surely laid, that no turn of this Key shall be in any possibility to frustrate, but promote it rather▪ The design for the Kingdom of God to be first sought, with his Righteousness, Mat. 6.33. or which is pursued by seeking Glory, Honour▪ and Immortality, to the actual attainment ⟨p. 81⟩of Eternal Life, Rom. 2.7. may, if prescribed methods be duly observed, have this felicity always attending it, to be successfully pursued, while we live, and effected when we Die,

2. Be not over-intent on designs for this present World; which would suppose you to count upon long abode in it. Let them be always laid with a supposition, you may this way, even, by one turn of this Key, be prevented of bringing them about; and let them be pursued with indifferency, so as that disappointment even this way, may not be a grievance.