LORD, Thank YOU For Keeping Us From Worldly Delights.

Those who hunt after it are dogs!
(Thomas Brooks, "The Crown and Glory of Christianity, 
or, HOLINESS, the Only Way to Happiness", 1662)

Though of all losses, the loss of the soul 
is the greatest, the saddest, the sorest, 
the heaviest, and the most intolerable, 
inconceivable, and irrecoverable loss--
yet a man bewitched with the world 
will run the hazard of losing 
his eternal soul, of damning it--
to enjoy the world. 

Men who are bewitched with this 
world in these days, oh, how do 
they prefer their sensual delights, 
their brutish contentments, and 
their carnal enjoyments--
before the beauties of holiness, 
and before heavenly glory, where 
holiness sparkles and shines in all 
its refulgence, and where their souls 
might be abundantly satisfied and 
delighted with . . .
  the most ravishing joys,
  the most surpassing delights and
  the most transcendent pleasures 
which are at GOD'S right hand! 

The Arabic proverb says that 
"The world is a carcass--
and those who hunt after it 
are dogs!" If this proverb is true, 
what a multitude of professors will 
be found to be dogs . . .
  who hunt more after earth--
    than heaven; 
  who hunt more after terrestrial things--
    than celestial things; 
  who hunt more after worldly 
nothingnesses and emptinesses--
than they do after those fullnesses 
and sweetnesses which are in GOD,
CHRIST, Heaven, and holiness!

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