A Body of Practical Divinity

Use 1. It shows us what should not be our chief End, not to get great Estates, not to lay up Treasures upon Earth: This is the Degeneracy of Mankind since the Fall, their great Design is to compass the Earth, and grow Rich, and this they make their Finis ultimus, their chief End: Cassa & caduca pluris faciunt quam coelestia Cavidro: These never think of glorifying God, they trade for the World, but are not Factors for Heaven: Eccles. 9.3. Madness is in their heart while they live; sometimes they never arrive at an Estate, they do not get the Venison they hunt for; or though they do, what have they? that which will not fill the Heart no more then the Mariner's Breath will fix the Sails of a Ship; like a fair Picture drawn on the Ice, and to spend all one's time as Israel in gathering Straw, but remember not the End of living to glorify God: Eccles. 5.16. What profit hath he that laboured for the wind? And these things are soon gone.

Use 1. It shews us what should not be our chief End, not to get great Estates, not to lay up Treasures upon Earth: This is the Degeneracy of Mankind since the Fall, their great Design is to compass the Earth, and grow Rich, and this they make their Finis ultimus, their chief End: Cassa & caduca pluris faciunt quam coelestia Cavidro: These never think of glorifying God, they trade for the World, but are not Factors for Heaven: Eccles. 9.3. Madness is in their heart while they live; sometimes they never arrive at an Estate, they do not get the Venison they hunt for; or though they do, what have they? that which will not fill the Heart no more then the Marriner's Breath will fix the Sails of a Ship; like a fair Picture drawn on the Ice, and to spend all one's time as Israel in gathering Straw, but remember not the End of living to glorifie God: Eccles. 5.16. What profit hath he that laboured for the wind? And these things are soon gone.