The Godly Man's Picture

2. Consider how much below a Christian it is to be earthly-minded: We laugh sometimes at Children when we see them busying themselves about toys, blowing bubbles in the air out of a shell, kissing their Babies, &c. when in the mean time we do the same; at death what will all the world be which we so hug and kiss, but as a Baby of Clouts, it will yield us no more comfort then; and to be taken up with these things, how far is it below an heaven-born soul! nay, for such as profess to be ennobled with a principle of Piety, and to have their hopes above, for them to have their hearts below, how do they [Greek or Hebrew] disparage their Heavenly Calling, and spot their silver wings of Grace, by beliming them with earth?

2. Consider how much below a Christian it is to be earthly-minded: We laugh sometimes at Children when we see them busying themselves about toys, blowing bubbles in the ayr out of a shell, kissing their Babies, &c. when in the mean time we do the same; at death what will all the world be which we so hug and kiss, but as a Baby of Clouts, it will yield us no more comfort then; and to be taken up with these things, how far is it below an heaven-born soul! nay, for such as profess to be enobled with a principle of Piety, and to have their hopes above, for them to have their hearts below, how do they 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 disparage their Heavenly Calling, and spot their silver wings of Grace, by beliming them with earth?

3. Consider what a poor contemptible thing the world is, it is not worth setting the affections on, it cannot fill the heart; if Satan should take a Christian up to the Mount of Temptation, and show him all the Kingdoms and glory of the world, what could he show him but a fancy, an apparition? ⟨p. 149⟩Nothing here can be proportionable to the immense soul of man, Job 20. 22. In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: Here is want in plenty; the creature will no more fill the soul, than a drop will fill the bucket; and that little sweet we suck from the creature, is intermixed with some bitterness, like that Cup which the Jews gave Christ,