208 Loving Chri/l above all, SE R M. exprefs'd in the xivth of St. Luke and the IX. 26th, verfe, but the meaning is the fame as here. " If any man come to me, and hate not " his father, and mother, and wife, and chil- " dren, and brethren, and fillers, yea and his own life alfo, he cannot be my difciple." In difcourfing on thefe words, I will Firfl, confider, what it is to be worthy of Chrift. Secondly, I will chew, what is meant by the Love of him, as in comparifon with, and oppofition to the love of friends, and all other worldly interefts ; from which the truth of this declaration will appear, that we cannot be worthy of him upon other terms than preferring him to every thing elfe. Fir]l, Let us confider what it is, to be worthy of Chrift. And this we find is very well explained in the paffage juft now re- ferred to by this expreffion, he cannot be my difciple ; that is, he cannot be a fincere chriflian; , he may call himfelf by that name : But whofoever doth not come up to the terms here required, is not a chriftian in heart
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