The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believerThe Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer

My last Use is to such as have only things present, ¹that they would labour for things to come. You have seen the blessed condition of a man in Christ, never rest till this be yours: Alas, what are the great possessions of the earth? the world hath vanity written upon the frontispiece; there's a transiency and a deficiency in these things. What is Honour' but a rattle to still mens ambition? it is like the Meteor which lives in the air, so doth this in the breath of other men^*: it's like a gale of wind which carries the ship; sometimes this wind is down, a man hath lost his Honour, and lives to see himself entombed: som••mes this wind is too high: how many have been blown to hell while they have been sailing with the wind of popular ⟨p. 313⟩applause! Honour is but magnum nihil^*, a glorious fancy, Acts 25.23^*. It doth not make a man really the better, but often the worse: a man swelled with honour (wanting grace) is like a dropsy man whose bigness is his disease.

My last Use is to such as have only things present, ¹that they would labour for things to come. You have seen the blessed condition of a man in Christ, never rest till this be yours: Alas, what are the great possessions of the earth? the world hath vanity written upon the frontispiece; there's a transiency and a deficiency in these things. What is Honour' but a rattle to still mens ambition? it is like the Meteor which lives in the ayr, so doth this in the breath of other men^*: it's like a gale of wind which carries the ship; sometimes this wind is down, a man hath lost his Honor, and lives to see himself intombed: sommes this wind is too high: how many have been blown to hell while they have been sailing with the wind of popular