PRESENT versus FUTURE.
SUCH as have no present holiness are for a present happiness. "There be many that say, Who will shew us any good?" Any good will serve the turns of those who know not the chief good. But David adds, "Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us."
Oh, how sordid is it for men to prefer the garlic and onions of Egypt to the milk and honey of Canaan! Visible things to them are better than invisible. They mind the world that is come so much as if it would never have an end; and the world to come so little as if it would never have a beginning.