A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

2. As they are only for this World, so our abode here is but short and uncertain; and therefore if it be worldly Lust, it should be less prized, for it lasts but for a time. Within a very little while, those that are most potent, powerful and shining in the Splendour of the World, shall be turned to Dust and Ashes. God hath made Life short, for many wise and merciful Reasons, that the time of our Labour might not last too long. He hath made us to enjoy himself; and because he loveth the Saints, he would have them the sooner with himself, and would not be long without their Company; and that we might love eternal Life, therefore this Life is short; and that he might gratify the Saints, (for he that hath a Journey to go, would pass it over as soon as he can) God makes their Journey as short as is convenient for his Glory; and to shame wicked Men, because they delight in that which is but of a short continuance, but their Torment is Eternal. The Pleasure of Sin is but for a Season, but the Torments of Sin are for ever and ever; therefore this should put a check to your Desires, it is only for a World that passeth away; nay, the Lusts of this World pass away; 1 John 2.17. The World passeth away, and the Lusts thereof. The time will come when we shall have no lusts to these things; it begins at Sickness, but at the Day of Judgment we shall have no relish of these things; and when the whole World is burnt up, it will be our torment that we have prostituted our Affections to such low and unbeseeming things, we shall see the Vanity when it is too late; Men will have little love to the World then.

2. As they are only for this World, so our abode here is but short and uncertain; and therefore if it be worldly Lust, it should be less prized, for it lasts but for a time. Within a very little while, those that are most potent, powerful and shining in the Splendor of the World, shall be turned to Dust and Ashes. God hath made Life short, for many wise and merciful Reasons, that the time of our Labour might not last too long. He hath made us to enjoy himself; and because he loveth the Saints, he would have them the sooner with himself, and would not be long without their Company; and that we might love eternal Life, therefore this Life is short; and that he might gratify the Saints, (for he that hath a Journey to go, would pass it over as soon as he can) God makes their Journey as short as is convenient for his Glory; and to shame wicked Men, because they delight in that which is but of a short continuance, but their Torment is Eternal. The Pleasure of Sin is but for a Season, but the Torments of Sin are for ever and ever; therefore this should put a check to your Desires, it is only for a World that passeth away; nay, the Lusts of this World pass away;