One Hundred and Ninety Sermons on Psalm 119

4. What is your solace in your affliction, and the inconveniences that you meet with in your pilgrimages? Doth this comfort you, Home will pay for all? Heb. 10. 34. Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in your selves that ye have in heaven a better and enduring substance. Do you reckon upon a more enduring substance? Though the World frown upon you as a step-mother, yet you remember you have a better home. From whence do you fetch your supports in any cross? Doth this comfort you in the midst of the molestations of the World? They do not know your birth, your breeding, your hopes, nor your expectations. Strangers may be abused in a foreign place; when we come home, this will be forgotten. The Saints walk up and down, like a Prince that travels abroad in disguise; though he be slighted, abused, he doth not appear what he shall be. You have a glorious inheritance reserved for you; this is your Cordial, and the reviving of your souls, and that which doth your heart good to think of; and so you can be contented to suffer loss and inconveniences upon these hopes. The discourse between Modestus, a Governor under Valens, and Basil, in Nazianzen his twentieth Oration, is very notable: I shall only transcribe what is exactly to the purpose in hand: When he threatened him with banishment, I know no banishment (saith he) who know no abiding-place here in the world: I do not count this place mine; nor can I say the other is not mine; rather all is Gods, whose stranger and pilgrim I am. This was that which supported him in the midst of those threatenings. Therefore from whence do you fetch your support?

4. What is your solace in your affliction, and the inconveniences that you meet with in your pilgrimages? Doth this comfort you, Home will pay for all? Heb. 10. 34. Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in your selves that ye have in heaven a better and enduring substance. Do you reckon upon a more enduring substance? Though the World frown upon you as a step-mother, yet you remember you have a better home. From whence do you fetch your supports in any cross? Doth this comfort you in the midst of the molestations of the World? They do not know your birth, your breeding, your hopes, nor your expectations. Strangers may be abused in a foreign place; when we come home, this will be forgotten. The Saints walk up and down, like a Prince that travels abroad in disguise; though he be slighted, abused, he doth not appear what he shall be. You have a glorious inheritance reserved for you; this is your Cordial, and the reviving of your souls, and that which doth your heart good to think of; and so you can be contented to suffer loss and inconveniences upon these hopes. The discourse between Modestus, a Governour under Valens, and Basil, in Nazianzen his twentieth Oration, is very notable: I shall only transcribe what is exactly to the purpose in hand: When he threatned him with banishment, I know no banishment (saith he) who know no abiding-place here in the world: I do not count this place mine; nor can I say the other is not mine; rather all is Gods, whose stranger and pilgrim I am. This was that which supported him in the midst of those threatnings. Therefore from whence do you fetch your support?