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He buys his pleasures too dear who pays for them with the loss of his soul.
Luxury is living in pleasure. God allows us to use pleasures, but not to live in them; to take delights, but not that they should take us. To live always at the full is but a wanton luxury.
Pleasures are like a substance in the pursuit, but clouds in the enjoyment. Pleasure is a beautiful harlot sitting in her chariot whose four wheels are pride, gluttony, lust, and idleness; the two horses are prosperity and abundance; the two drivers are idleness and security; her attendants and followers are guilt, grief, late repentance (if any), and oft death and ruin.
However men may contrive to cheat themselves, God is not truly great in the soul till all other things become as nothing; neither doth the soul rightly converse with His infinite fullness so long as anything stands in opposition to it or competition with it.
It is highly reasonable that we begin now to be that which we expect to be forever, to learn that way of living in which we hope to live to all eternity.
As we cannot live a moment out of God, so neither ought we to live a moment without God in the world. We ought continually to endeavor to walk in subservience to and converse with God; yea, and as far as may be, in a feeling converse with Him too.
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