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4 This reproves those who are eager & violent in their pursuits after the things of this life, but not so after spiritual things; we are all upon the spur, all upon the wing after the world, here is violence upon violence, labour upon labour for these things which we may have, and yet be never the better, and want them, and yet be never the worse. Covetous men are said to pant after the dust of the earth, Amos 2. 7. So eager are they in ¹their pursuit after the world, as if they were ⟨p. 20⟩almost out of breath. Psal. 59. 6, 14. They return at evening, they make a noise like a dog, ²and go about the city. No creature is so sensible of hunger as a dog. Covetous men are like dogs towards the world, as if they were made up all of desires, but towards the things of eternity we are as if we were all Stoics, and had no passions in us. As hot ³as fire for earth, and as cold as any ice for heaven. Oh how many pant after the earth who have no breathing after heaven!

4 This reproves those who are eager & violent in their pursuits after the things of this life, but not so after spiritual things; we are all upon the spur, all upon the wing after the world, here is violence upon violence, labour upon labour for these things which we may have, and yet be never the better, and want them, and yet be never the worse. Covetous men are said to pant after the dust of the earth, Amos 2. 7. So eager are they in ¹their pursuit after the world, as if they were ⟨p. 20⟩almost out of breath.