The Godly Man's Picture

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, Mar. 15. 23. They gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh. And this imperfect sweet will not last long, 1 John 2. 17. The world passeth away. The creature doth but salute us, and is presently upon the^* wing▪ The world rings Changes, it is never constant but in its disappointments; how quickly may we remove our lodgings, and make our pillow in the dust? The world is but a great Inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our Inn, as to forget our home?

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 Kingdomes and glory of the world, what could he show him but a phancy, an apparition? ⟨p. 149⟩Nothing here can be proportionable to the immense soul of man, Iob 20. 22. In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in streights: 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,