They are of the world, therefore speak they of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God. 1 John 4:5-6.
What should set us more against the world, than the cross of Christ, and what is generally more turned into security and worldly lusts than this? O! miserable spiders, that suck poison out of the sweetest flowers.
When in the light of faith divine,
We look on things below,
Honour, and gold, and sensual joy,
How vain and dangerous too!
The pleasures that allure our sense
Are dangerous snares to souls.
There’s but a drop of flattering sweet,
And dashed with bitter bowls.
God is my all-sufficient good,
My portion and my choice.
In him my vast desires are filled,
And all my powers rejoice.
In vain the world accosts my ear.
And tempts my heart anew,
I cannot buy your bliss so dear,
Nor part with heaven for you.