The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith, or, One cast for eternity…

I have undertaken briefly in the ensuing discourse to show also the vast difference between the Christians, and the Worldlings portion, by which you may understand, that if any one among you could enjoy the wealth of Croesus, the wisdom and glory of Solomon, the beauty of Absalom, the strength of Sampson, the pleasures of Sardanapalus, and to all, the long life of Methuselah; yet in the midst of all these, his soul would be as beggarly as the body of Lazarus, and as restless and unsatisfied as the stormy tempestuous Ocean. No Water, say Naturalists, will quench the Dragons thirst. No creature can fill the vast desires of a capacious, immortal soul. As among all the Beasts of the field there was not a meet Companion for man, Adam was solitary and alone, notwithstanding their numerous society; so amongst all the creatures in the World, there is not a meet portion for the soul, its poor and beggarly without God, in the midst of all its possessions; your heads may be solicitous, and your hearts industrious, to heap up creature-comforts, and when ye have got what the World can give, ye would be but as hungry men in a Room full of Stones or Chips. That which is unsuitable to the souls nature, cannot be satisfying to the spirits desires.

I have undertaken briefly in the ensuing discourse to shew also the vast difference between the Christians, and the Worldlings portion, by which you may understand, that if any one among you could enjoy the wealth of Craesus, the wisdom and glory of Solomon, the beauty of Absolom, the strength of Sampson, the pleasures of Sardanapalus, and to all, the long life of Methuselah; yet in the midst of all these, his soul would be as beggerly as the body of Lazarus, and as restless and unsatisfied as the stormy tempestuous Ocean. No Water, say Naturalists, will quench the Dragons thirst. No creature can fill the vast desires of a capatious, immortal soul. As among all the Beasts of the field there was not a meet Companion for man, Adam was solitary and alone, notwithstanding their numerous society; so amongst all the creatures in the World, there is not a meet portion for the soul, its poor and beggerly without God, in the midst of all its possessions; your heads may be solicitous, and your hearts industrious, to heap up creature-comforts, and when ye have got what the World can give, ye would be but as hungry men in a Room full of Stones or Chips. That which is unsutable to the souls nature, cannot be satisfying to the spirits desires.