q80 Hotbwemay klnow u-hetherrue be e/Tetireallycalled. ofvs as is fpirituall and regenerate ; fo that it is no meruaile ifthe flefh and vnregenerate part full loue the world, be- caufe it is flill \worldly ; but ifin the inner man wee hate this loue, and firiue to bridle,yea to mortifie it, if we are truelie forie and difpleafed with our felues for this as for other Pinnes and labour to reforme it, wee may be allured that the fpi- rit ofGod is invs,whichhath feueredvs from the world,and ioynedvs to thebodyofIefusChrif+. §.SC1.7 The like allo may be anfwered concerning the loue of Hovv farre worldly things, honours, richesand pleafures; we mayloue rth vue may them as they are the bleffings ofGod, and delire them fo loueworldly farre foorth as theyare temporali benefits, and furtherances bittgs. or at leaf+ no hindrances in the workesof holineffe and righ- teoufneffe, we may fo loue them as that in the meane time our loue be fubordinate to the loueofGod,our brethren and fpirituall things. But if our loue palle thefe limits,it is cor- rupt and carnali, yet novndoubted argument to prooue that wearenot effe&ualliecalled, ifwe are difpleafedwith it,and labour againf+ it; and though oftentimes we are ouercome therewith through the violence ofour carnali affe&ionsand corruptions ofthe flefh, yet ifwe hate this finne in the in- ner man, if wee entertaine it through violence, and not withaffë6tion and delight, if it dwell in vs, but doe not raigne in vs, ifbutfometimes it get the upper hand and doe not continuallic ouerrule vs, it is no more wee that doe it but finne that dwelleth invs, thatis, theold man and cor- rupt flefb, whichwhileU we hue in this life will Beare foin fway in vs. That the , Laftlie,whenas Satan affaulteth thepoore Chriflian with world loueth his tentations, perfwading him that he is not yet called nor ibem not fe arated from the wicked world, becaufe it loueth him,hee vvhorn Sahan p hatetb. may well fufpe& his argument of falfhood, for Satan doth not hate thofe whom the world loueth; but by his conti- nuall affaultingoftheweake Chriflian, andhis daily labou- ring to bring him through the violence of his tentations to utter def+ruaion, it manifef+lie appeareth that Satan like a mortali enimie deadly hateth him; and therefore it is not likelie that is beloued of the world though it may for a time
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