Earth Worm!

(Jonathan Edwards, "The Justice of God")

What covetousness has been in many of you!

Such has been your inordinate love of the world, and care about the things of it, that it has taken up your heart.

For the vanities of the world, you have allowed no room for God; you have minded the world more than your eternal salvation.

For the vanities of the world, you have neglected reading, praying and meditation.

For the vanities of the world, you have cast God, and Christ, and heaven, behind your back.

For the vanities of the world, you have sold your own soul.

You have as it were drowned your soul in worldly cares and desires; you have been a mere earth worm, that is never in its element but when groveling and buried in the earth!