Note, 1. Though men may advance themselves by sinful arts, they cannot
by such arts settle and secure themselves; though they may get large
estates they cannot get such as will abide: A man shall not be
established by wickedness; it may set him in high places, but they are
slippery places, Ps. lxxiii. 18. That prosperity which is raised by sin
is built on the sand, and so it will soon appear. 2. Though good men
may have but little of the world, yet that little will last, and what
is honestly got will wear well: The root of the righteous shall not be
moved, though their branches may be shaken. Those that by faith are
rooted in Christ are firmly fixed; in him their comfort and happiness
are so rooted as never to be rooted up.