66 Go fpel--. Converfation. and an interefi in many promifes in theBook of God, for life and godlynefs are more to me then all the treafuries of Egypt, and though Ido not enjoy fo much in the hand as others, yet my heart bath enough, becaufe it is po!%ft by Chrift, in whom all the promifes are Tea, and Amen ; that is, fire and infallible. God ùfaithful who hath pormifed ; this is an argument that thou art taken out of the world, and taken into the Kingdom ofJefus Chrift; but otherwife, thou that canft not truft God for thy outward eftate, body and foul upon a promi, this is an evi- dence of one that hath his heart fet on the world. 3. A third fgn ofa man of this world, is this, A man ofthe world blefes thole that are lid_e hire%lf, looks upon andmeafures the bappi7:ets or rnifery ofother men, according to what they do enjoy,or ac- cording to that they do nut enjoy in this world ; They call the proud, happy ; I mean by this they meafure the happiness of other men, according to what they have of the world, and thick that the meer enjoying of worldly accommodations is enough to make men happy, notwithftanding they fee them to be very wicked and finful, yet fo long as they flourifh as a green bay tree, yet re- joyce in them and with them, yea, get themfelves in the midit of theguilt that is upon them, when confcience (as a woolf in their bofom)flyes in their faces, yet they can bteífe themfelves in the enjoyment ofoutward comforts, and let that agatrift an r trouble of mindwhatfoever, as if fo be it were enough to make up their comforts : I have been at fuch a place, and contracted fuch guiltinefs upon my foul, committed such fins, Oh ! what (hall comfort me now ? well, he comes home, and fees all wel a- bout him, his houle furnifhed, his table fpread, means coming in as a floud, and this quiets him : here's a worldly heart : where as were the heart taken offfrom the world, the poffellìon of al without Chrift would never calm a confcience that hath any built upon it; when I have contracted any guilt upon my foul, all though I fee all well about me, Oh ! till I have an affurance from the Holy Ghoft the Witnefs ofthe Spirit, that the guilt of my fin is wafht away in the blood ofJefus Chriff, what will all thefe do me good ? I have thefe and titefe comforts, Oh ! but I have an unclean confcience, a leprous foul : Doeft thou fet the good things here to countervail the evil offin? Certainly, thou art
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