The Cure of Flejb~pleajing. of baptizing, (and fo is !!ill by Baptifm it felf); when they went over head in the water and then role out of it, to fignilie that they were dead and buried with Chrifl, Rom. 6. 3, 4· and rofe with him to newneiS of life : This is called om; being Baptized into hit death : And feecns: the plain fenfc of r Cor•. r5· 29. of being Baptized for the dead , that is, for dead ; or to £hew that we are dead to tbe world, and muft dye in the world, but (hall rife agam to the Kingdom bf Chri£1, both of Grace and Glory. 2 • Senfuality lhewcth that there is no true belief of the life to come, and proverb fo far as itpre' vailetb.the abfence of all grace. 3· It is a home-bred continual traytor to the foul : A continual tempter, and nurfe of all fin: The great withdrawcr of the heart from God : and the common caufe ofApofiacy it feif< It ftill fightcth again!\ the Spirit : Gal. 5· '7· And is fceki~g advantage from all our Liberties, Ga~ S• l3• 2 Peto2• lOo , . 4 . It turneth all our outward mercies into fin, and ftrengthneth it felf again£! God by his own be. netits. • ' 5· It is the great caufe of our aflliCl:ions : For God will not fpare that Idol which is fei up again£! him : Flef11 rebelleth, and flelh £hall fuifer. 6. And when it bath brought aflliction, it is moll impatient under it, and maketh it fecm iiltolle· rabic. A Jlefo-pleafer thin~s he is undone, when aflliction depriveth him of his pleafure• . 7· Lamy, It exceedingly unlitteth men for Death: For then Flejh mull be cafi into the du£1, and all its pleafure be at an end: 0 doleful day to thofc that had their good things here, and their portion in this life ! When ~11 is gone that ever they valued and fought ; and all the true felicity loft, which they brutilhly contemned ? If you would joyfully then bear the dilfolution and ruine of your flelh 0 maller it, and mortifie it now. s·eek not the eafe and pleafure of a little walking lorcathing clay' when you lhould be feekjng and fore-tailing the ever)afiing pleafure. Here lyeth your danger ana your work : Strive more again£! your own flefh, than again!l all your Enemies in Earth and Hell : If you be faved from this, you are faved from them all. Chrifi fuifered in thellelh, to tell you that it 1s not pampering, but fuifering that you' llelh mull e:Xpel\l, if you will «ign with hiin. { Nil :a. ~HAP~ ~------------------~--------------~--·~
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