Neither is there any land or possession now, like unto the possession which the Jews had in Canaan, [Sidenote: Gen. 17:8.] being legally holy and appropriated unto a holy people, the seed of Abraham, in which they dwelt securely and had their days prolonged, it being by an immediate voice said, that he (the Lord) gave it them as a land of rest after their weary travels, and a type of eternal rest in heaven but now there is no land of that sanctimony, no land so appropriated, none typical, much less any that can be said to be given of God to any nation as was Canaan, which they and their seed must dwell in, till God sendeth upon them sword or captivity. But now we are all in all places strangers and pilgrims, travellers and sojourners, most properly, having no dwelling but in this earthen tabernacle; our dwelling is but a wandering, and our abiding but as a fleeting, and in a word our home is nowhere, but in the heavens, [Sidenote: II Cor. 5:1, 2, 3.] in that house not made with hands, whose maker and builder is God, and to which all ascend that love the coming of our Lord Jesus. [Sidenote: So were the Jews, but yet their temporal blessings and inheritances were more large than ours.] Though then there may be reasons to persuade a man to live in this or that land, yet there cannot be the same reasons which the Jews had, but now as natural, civil and religious bands tie men, so they must be bound, and as good reasons for things terrene and heavenly appear, so they must be led. [Sidenote: Object.] And so here falleth in our question, how a man that is here born and bred, and hath lived some years, may remove himself into another country. [Sidenote: Answ. 1. What persons may hence remove.]