He will not have his hasten to be rich, or labour after superfluities, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 nor anxiously, after necessaries. For worldlinesse (〈◊〉〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉〈◊〉) when men oppresse themselves with multiplying of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, or suffer their thoughts and affections to be 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 taken up, with minding these things on earth, as a main hin∣derance from heaven: It fills the heart with cares, and so unfits 〈◊〉〈◊〉 deads it to divine duties. The thoughts as wings, should carry 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in worship even to the mansions of God, which being laden 〈◊〉〈◊〉 thick 〈◊〉〈◊〉, they so glue us to the earth, that the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 word and ordinances cannot draw us one jot from it. The 〈◊〉〈◊〉 is also hereby made like a mill, where one cannot hear 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 noise is such as takes away all intercourse. If conscience call 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them to take heed of going out of Gods way, they are at as little 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to listen, as he that runs in a race; who many times 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with so much violence, that he cannot hear what is said unto him, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it never so good counsel. And having thus set their hearts, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 their hopes upon earthly things, if ever they 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them, as it 〈◊〉〈◊〉 falleth out, they are filled almost with unmedicinable sorrows, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 as they will praise the dead above the living, and wish they had 〈◊〉〈◊〉 been born, Eccles. 4. 1, 2, 3. Lo this is the guise and guerdom of those Inhabitants of the earth, those viri divitiarum, as the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 stiles them, those miserable muck-worms, that prefer Mammon before Messias, gold before God, money before mercy, earth before heaven: as childish a weaknesse as that of Honorius the Emperour, that preferred a Hen before the City of Rome. 〈◊〉〈◊〉, saith one, is a monster, whose head is as subtill as the ser∣pent, whose mouth is wide as hell, eyes sharp as a Lizard, scent quick as the Vulture, hands fast as Harpyes, belly insatiable as a Wolfe, feet swift to 〈◊〉〈◊〉, as a Lionesse robbed of her whelps. Ahab will have Naboths vineyard, or he will have his bloud. Judas was both covetous and a murderer, and therefore a murderer, because covetous. He is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 also a thief, and why a thief, but 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a Mammonist. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 draws a man from all the Commandments, Psal. 116. 36. And there want not those, that have drawn the covetous person thorow all the Command∣ments, and proved him an Arheist, a Papist, a perjurer, a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Gods Sabbath, an iron boweld wretch, a murtherer, an adulterer, a thief, a false witnesse, or whatsoever 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the devil will. And can this man ever serve God acceptably? can he possibly please two so contrary masters? No: he may sooner reconcile fire and water,