By the Crofs cf Chrift. I' feel, and put thecafebeyond difpute. Ifyou lookupwards, you may perceive a better and more enduring fubflance , and an .. heritance fomuch more glorious and enduring , as fhouldfufficá= to take your minds from earth : If you lookwithin you what o s f the Spiritmay you there trace what graces in aft :u:d-ßiá tt niay'yòu find, which areall at mortal enmity with the world ! Yotmay read there a Law engraven upon your'41eaAf; -'- which condemneth the world to fubjeaion and contempt: find`'' many an obligation youmay there find , wherein you are deeply bound againft it : For I hope you have not cancelled them all,,, and forgot all the promifes which you made to God. All yeit "' Profeflions,and all yourbleffed Priviledges andHopes, doengte you to another world , and to the hearty renouncing and-lot-1.-k, faking of this. You fay you are Crucified and Rifen with Chrift ; If you be, then leek the things that are above : fet your affections on the things that areabove, andnoton the things that areon earth. For you are dead , and your life is hid with Chrift in God : When Chrift who is your life thall appear , then fhall youalto appear with him in glory. Mortifie therefore yourmem- bers which areon earth, fornication, uncleannefs, inordinate af- fe&ion, evil concupifcence, and covetoufnefs which is idolatry : For which things fake the wrath of Cod cometh on the children of dífobedience, Col. 3. t . to 7. It doth not befeem the members of a Crucified (Thrift to be earthlyminded ; nor the members of aGlorified Chrift to let their minds on things folow.It ill befeems the Heirs ofan incorruptible Crownof Glory to make too great a matter ofthele trifles. It is theEnemies of theCrofs of Chrift, and not thofe that are Crucified with him, whole Godù their belly, and whoglory in theirfhame, and who mind earthly things : but theSaintsconverfation mutt be in Heaven , from whence it is that he expecteth his Saviour to change his vile earthly body,and make it like to his glorious body , Phil. 3. 17, i 8, i9, 20, 21. If indeed you have laid up your treafure in heaven, where ruft and moath corrupt not, and where thieves do not break through and fleal, let it appear then by the effects. For whereyour trea- fure is, there will your heart be, and where your heart is, that way the Laboursof your lives will tend. I (hall reduce myExhorta Lion to fore, particulars. A a a. I F
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