146 . The Crtteifying of the world, Flanders or other wrongs, are ás nothing to a man that is dead to the world, which feem intolerable CO unmortified men. For the heart and foul of the unmortified are the feat and fubjec`t of them ; when the mortified Chriftianhth a Garrifonwithin, and bolts the door,and keeps them from his heart. What great trou- ble will it be to any man to part with that which he Both not care, for? efpecially -while he keepeth that whichbath his heart. Its no great trouble to a worldling to want the love of. God or communion with him, nor to be without the life of grace, not to lie under the burden of the greateft fins, and to be the flave of the Devil :. becaufe he is dead in fin, and dead to God, and the things"of the Spitit; and therefore he perceiveth not the excel- lency of them, but is well content to live without them ; And if fpiritoal death canmake men fo contented without the great un- valuable treafure,and can make men let light by God and Glory ; What -wonder ifthey thataredead to the worlddo fet as light by fuch in inconfiderable vanities ? And if the dead in fin can bear fo eafily the greateft mifery that man on earth is ordinarily capa- ble of, as the flavery of the Devil, the guilt-of fin, the curie of the Law , the danger of damnation , &c. what wonder then if they that are Crucified to the world can bear a little poverty, or ficknefs, or reproach ? which is to the other, but as the prick.of a pin; or the fcratch of a thorn,to a deadly poyfon_, or a flab at the veryheart. 3. But yet this is not all. Your inordinate love of any thing in the world, will not only embitter your lives, but it will be the horrour of your fouls at death and judgement. And therefore as ever you would leave the world in peace, andas ever you would appear before the Lord your Judgewithcoìnfort,and as ever you delire that the creatures fhould not be your Tormentors, rake heed that you do not over-love them now but fee that they be Crucified to you. You cannot potlìbíy be fenfible now, what a pang of horreur it will call you into at the la[t when you (ball fee the world leaving you , and fee what it was that you ventu- red your fouls and their everlafting welfare for. Owith what grief and tearingof heart do earthly minded perfons part with the world ? When you are dying, that one thing that had your heart, will more torment your hearts to remember it, then all things etfe willdo, Nothing is fuch a terrour to the thoughts ofa dying
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