The one thing necessary Preached in a sermon at Pauls, before the Right Honourable…

1. The entanglements of the world. While the foot is in a snare, a man cannot run. The world is a snare^*; while our feet are in it, we cannot run the race set before us, Heb. 12. 1. If a man were to climb up a steepy rock, and had weights tied to ⟨p. 60⟩his legs, they would hinder his ascent; too many golden weights will hinder us from climbing up this steepy rock that leads to salvation. While the mill of a trade is going, it makes such a noise, that we can hardly hear the Minister lifting up his voice like a trumpet. The world chokes our zeal and appetite after heavenly things; the earth puts out the fire; the music of the world charms us asleep, and then we cannot work. In mines of gold there are killing damps, O how many souls have been destroyed with a damp arising from the earth.

1. The intanglements of the world. While the foot is in a snare, a man cannot run. The world is a snare^*; while our feet are in it, we cannot run the race set before us, Heb. 12. 1. If a man were to climb up a steepy rock, and had weights tyed to ⟨p. 60⟩his legs, they would hinder his ascent; too many golden weights will hinder us from climbing up this steepy rock that leads to salvation. While the mill of a trade is going, it makes such a noise, that we can hardly hear the Minister lifting up his voyce like a trumpet. The world choaks our zeale and appetite after heavenly things; the earth puts out the fire; the musick of the world charmes us asleep, and then we cannot work. In mines of gold there are killing damps, O how many souls have been destroyed with a damp arising from the earth.

1. *Divitiae saeculi sunt laquei diaboli. Bern.