By the Croft ofChrif$, Benefit 9. ) iq Oreover when once you areCrucified to the jVI world,yon are capable of the truefpiritual ufe of it, which itwas madefor. Then you may fee God in it ; and then youmay favour the blood of Griffin it : Then you may perceive'a great deal of Love in it : And that which beforewas venemous, and did endanger your fouls , will now becomea help toyou , and may be fafely handled when the fling is thus taken out. Before it was the road to Hell : andnow there is force tale of heaven in it. TheHones and earth are ufeful for you to tread upon thoughthey are unfit for you to feed on or too hard to reff upqn. So though the world be unfit to Rej, or feed your fouls, it may be made aconvenient way for you to travail in. It is unmeet to be Loved, but it is meet to be Vfed, when you have learned fo toufe ir,as not abufing-it. Whenfelfis throughly down: bnd denyed, and God is exalted, and your fouls brought over fo clearly tohim, that you are nothing but in him, and would have ,nothing but in and with him , and do nothingbut forhim then you (hall beable to fee that glory and amiablenefsin thecreature, that now you cannot fee. Ior you lhall fee theCreator himfelf in the creature. Benefit i o. 17HEN once you are trulyCrucified to the V V world You will have the honourand the comfort of an heavenly life. Your thoughts will be daily fleeped in the Ccele[ial delights, when other mens are fleept inGall ande Vinegar. You will beabove with God, whenyour carnal neigh_. bours converfe only with the world. Your thoughts will be higher then their thoughts, and your waies then their waies as . the heavenwhere you converfe is higher. then the earth. When you take flight from earth in holyDevotions , they may lookat you, and wonder at you but cannot follow, you ; for whither yougo, they cannot come, till they are fuch as you. You leave them groveling here onearth, and-feeding on the duff and flri-. wing like children, or rather like fwine or dogs, about their meat. When youare above in the Spirit, on the fpeedy wings of-Faith and Love , beholdin'g that facethat perfeteth all that pettedly behold..
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