The Third Direction.

Further, Set the example of the Saints before you, that have been the most precious servants of God, in former times; how they accounted themselves as Pilgrims and strangers here in the earth: read at your leisure that Scrip∣ture in the 11 of the Heb. at the 13. verse, These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them a∣far off, and were perswaded of them, and imbraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth: and mark therefore how it follows in the 37. verse, They were stoned, they were sawn asunder were tempted, were slain with the sword, they wandred about in sheeps-skins and goats-skins, be∣ing destitute, afflicted, tormented. Who were these? They were they of whom the world was no tworthy, They wan∣dered in deserts, and in Mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth: and yet such precious Saints of God as the world was not worthy of. Now when we set before us how joyfully these servants of the most high went through all their wil∣dernesse condition, this should make us ashamed of our earthly-mindedness, and would be a mighty help to us.