for some preferment here; and not to regard or be affected with eternity: It is the phrase that the Apostle Paul useth, he cals it mans day; I care not to be judged by mans day; and indeed it is but a short day; and what is it to that eternitie I looke for? What is it to that God, with whom I must live for ever? therefore I care not what men say of me, but I rather thinke what the eternall God thinkes of me, and what will be thought of mee in that Kingdome where I must live for ever. If a man were in Turkie, or in some other remote place, to trafficke there a while, hee would not care what the men of that place thought of him, for hee saith, this is not the place where I must live: so doe you but consider, that this is not the place where you must live, and then of what mo∣ment will it appeare to you, what men say of you? Beloved, if the soule were mortall, there were some reason that you should make provision for it here; but seeing it is immortall, you ought to make a proportionable provision for it, even for ever: for the body you are apt to make pro∣vision, a viaticum beyond the journey; but con∣sider, that you have an immortall soule, which must live for ever, and you must make some pro∣vision for it, to carry it so long a journey. It is our Saviours exhortation, Ioh. 6.27.Ioh. 6.27.Labour not for the meat that perisheth, but for the meat that en∣dures to everlasting life, &c. As if he should say; if you had no other life to live but this, then you might seeke the things of this life, as glory, ho∣nour, pleasure, &c, but these things perish, and 0