Better things than this world can afford

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Robert Traill (Stedfast Adherence to the Profession of our Faith), Works 3:144:

Lord, deliver me, says the Psalmist, from the men of the world, which have their portion in this life. As for me, says he, I expect better things than this world can afford, Ps. 17:14, 15. The portion of the men of this world is such a prize, that the greatest part of the world run after it all their life long. What pain, what care, what thoughts are spent about these things? And when they have got them, what have they got? How poor and empty are they? The believer’s portion even in this life is a great deal better than that of the wicked. Better is that little the righteous man hath, than many revenues of the wicked. How much more must the prize of the high calling be? We would not, as it were, disgrace our prize so much as to compare it with the portion of the men of the world, and yet what a believer hath in time is beyond what they have.
 
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