A Divine Cordial

8. You may love worldly things, and they dye and leave you. Riches take wings, Relations drop away^*. The Romans painted the vanity of worldly things in the form and shape of a man; in his right hand a Rose, in his left hand a Lilly, ⟨p. 127⟩under his feet Wormwood: An Emblem of the world: The Rose is sweet, the Lilly fair, but both fading; and under the feet Wormwood; at death all the delights of the world will be bitter. There is nothing here abiding^*; the Creature hath a little honey in its mouth, but it hath wings, it will soon fly away; —Vitae primordium, mortis prodromum—But if you love God, he is a portion for ever, Psal. 73.26. As he is called a Sun for comfort, so a Rock for eternity, he abides for ever. Thus we see it is better to love God than the world.

8. You may love worldly things, and they dye and leave you. Riches take wings, Relations drop away^*. The Romans painted the vanity of worldly things in the form and shape of a man; in his right hand a Rose, in his left hand a Lilly, ⟨p. 127⟩under his feet Wormwood: An Emblem of the world: The Rose is sweet, the Lilly fair, but both fading; and under the feet Wormwood; at death all the delights of the world will be bitter. There is nothing here abiding^*; the Creature hath a little honey in its mouth, but it hath wings, it will soon flie away; —Vitae primordium, mortis prodromum—But if you love God, he is a portion for ever, Psal. 73.26. As he is called a Sun for comfort, so a Rock for eternity, he abides for ever. Thus we see it is better to love God than the world.

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