what profit] A chief point in the wise mans Compasse, is, cui bono? Who will shew us any good? Thus worldly men look after this, Psal. IV. 6. Yea, wicked men in their overtures of Religion, Mal. III. 14. No profit, towards the attainment of true happinesse.
Labour which, &c.] A labour in order to things above the Sunne will profit, Phil. III. 20. Colos. III. 1, 2. John VI. 27. No toilsome labour in earthly things will do so. Nothing remaineth or abideth with him, nothing more is added to him by it; it addes nothing of real worth unto him at all. That we shall finde to be truth, which is in Habak. II. 13, 6.