Blueridge Believer
Puritan Board Professor
Worshipers of the golden calf!
(Thomas Brooks, "London's Lamentations" 1670)
There is a great deal of worldliness, and earthly-mindedness,
and covetousness among the professing Christians of our day.
They are worshipers of the golden calf! O sirs! the world is
all shadow and vanity. The world is like Jonah's gourd--a man
may sit under its shadow for a time, but it soon decays and dies.
The main reason why many professors dote upon the world,
is because they are not acquainted with a greater glory. If
the heart of man is not filled with God--it will be filled with
the world, the flesh and the devil.
The world may well be resembled to the fruit which undid us
all--which was fair to the sight, smooth in handling, sweet in
taste--but deadly in effect and operation!
O sirs! if you can gather grapes off thorns, and figs off
thistles, then go on, and dote upon the world still. All the
things of this world are vain things-they are vanity of
vanities, Eccles. 1:2. All in heaven count them vain, and
all in hell count them vain; pearls are but as pebbles
in their eyes. Lazarus in heaven is now rich enough,
and happy enough; and Dives in hell is now poor enough,
and miserable enough. He who makes the world his god
while he is in the world--what will he do for a god when
he goes out of this world?
Well, sirs, remember this--an inordinate love of the world
will eat out all a man's communion with God. A man cannot
look up to heaven and look down upon the earth--at the
same time.
(Thomas Brooks, "London's Lamentations" 1670)
There is a great deal of worldliness, and earthly-mindedness,
and covetousness among the professing Christians of our day.
They are worshipers of the golden calf! O sirs! the world is
all shadow and vanity. The world is like Jonah's gourd--a man
may sit under its shadow for a time, but it soon decays and dies.
The main reason why many professors dote upon the world,
is because they are not acquainted with a greater glory. If
the heart of man is not filled with God--it will be filled with
the world, the flesh and the devil.
The world may well be resembled to the fruit which undid us
all--which was fair to the sight, smooth in handling, sweet in
taste--but deadly in effect and operation!
O sirs! if you can gather grapes off thorns, and figs off
thistles, then go on, and dote upon the world still. All the
things of this world are vain things-they are vanity of
vanities, Eccles. 1:2. All in heaven count them vain, and
all in hell count them vain; pearls are but as pebbles
in their eyes. Lazarus in heaven is now rich enough,
and happy enough; and Dives in hell is now poor enough,
and miserable enough. He who makes the world his god
while he is in the world--what will he do for a god when
he goes out of this world?
Well, sirs, remember this--an inordinate love of the world
will eat out all a man's communion with God. A man cannot
look up to heaven and look down upon the earth--at the
same time.
