Chap:, 28. t4n'".expoftion upon the. Book of Jo B. Verf.19. 287 clogs uponus,rather thengive us wings,. either in feeking or find- ing eternal happinefs,. Earthly things never befriended any man for Heaven.Wemay, I grant, as Chriff advifeth rich mee, (Luke 16. g.) make to our felve,rfriends of the Mammon of unrighteorefnefe, if we our felves are fpiritually wife; but the Mammon of unrighteoufnefs never made any man fpiritually wife;yea,as molt men get riches by their. folly, that is, by Gnningagainflthe rules of righteoufnefs towards man, fo their richesmakes themmore fóolifh in negleaing the duties of holinefs towards God. And that's the reafon why Chrift'faith,(C.Matb.19.24.)lt rs eafierfor a Camel to go through the eye of a needle, then for a richman to enter into the kingdom of God,The more we have of this world, the lefs we mind the world, to come, unleis we have learned that wifdom (which the world never taughtanyman) to cart it out of our minds. That earth which we tread under our feet, getsup into our hearts,and makes themmore earthly then the earth it felf is, till God fill our hearts with Grace, and fo makes them heavenly. l(oman could ever . keep the Moon (that is , things temporal.lnolchangeable ) un- der his feet (as that woman the Church , called a 'great wonder inMaven, is defcribed in the Revelation, Chap. 1 z. r.) till (as that woman was) be ie cloatbed wilb the Sun ; and that's a cloathing which as all the riches in the world cannot purchafe, fo the rich men of the world feldom prize. Some are fo poor, that they are undone temporally, and many are forich, that their riches,borh as to the getting of them, and as to the ufing of them have undon them ( atan occafion) eternally. And therefore Ch-ifi to wefh how little any are beholding to their riches for their wifdom (if they have any) faith to the rich man ( Luke r z. ao. Thou fool,tbis night 'hall thy foul be regu:red of tbee :Thenwho!" fall tl:ofe things be which thou hall provided ? That's one great poynr of folly," to provide many things forwe know:not whom; and yet there isa greater poynt of folly which that rich man was, and many rhoufands more havebeen and are guilty of, That while they provide many things for they know not whom,they haveco, knowledge to make p-ovifon for themfelves ; but as they came naked into this world when they were born, fo they goenaked out of this world when they dye, dying hopelefs, bccaufe Chrift lais and Gracclefss. Where-.
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