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may
know
wbctlserl\'e'Ge
efe
Eludij
ciilléd.
ns4eth
him
f
lje
the
cnemie
of
God.
If
therefore our
loue
arid
affe
&ions be
weaned in
foine
good
meafure
from
the
world,
and
fixt
on fpiritua;l
and heauenlie
things
;
if
wee ceafe
tobe
citizens
of
the
world, and
begin
to
haue
our
conuerfttion
in
heaucn,
from
rrhencee
tree
Tooke
for
a
Samieur
euen
the
Lord
Icfus
Chrift;
and
if
the world-begin
to
hate andfcorne
vs,
then
may we be allured
ff r
that wee
are
feuered from
the
world,
and intertained into
Gods
Church
and
Familie.
-_
.Seit'.6.
But
here
the tempter will
obie61,
that by this
it
plainely
satanr
rents-
appeareth
that
wee
are
not
yet
effeáI
ually called nor
fepara-
rion
anfvve-
ted from the
world,
becaufe
wee
flill
loue the world,af.
bépe
f
he'e
tb
feáting and defiring
the
vaine
pleafures,
honours,and
riches
the
thereof,,
yea
and altolouethofe who
are
meere
worldlings,
that
he
!milt
and
onthe
other
fide
the
world
alfo
loueth
vs,
giuing
vs
the vvorld,
000d
countenance and performing
other
duties vnto
vs.
For
.and
rhe.vuorid
Che
anfwering
of
which
fu
gef}ion wee
mull diffinguifh
be-
:im.
a
g
tweene our
felues
and our felues; for whilefi
we
continue in
this
-life
wee are
partlie.flefh,and partly fpirit, and
as
there
is
great
enmitic betweene the fpirit and
the
world, fo
is
there
great amide betweene the world
and
the
flefli. So fame
foorth
therefore
as
wee
are
fill
carnall and
corrupt
flefh
the
world loueth
vs,
but
as
much
as
isfpirituall and regenerate,
fo
much the
world hateth
and
abhorreth. Moreover,
we
may
generallie be
confidered
as
rnen,
ormore
fpecially
as
wee
are
Chriflian
men
;
in
the
firfl refpe
&,the
world,that
is,
wicked
worldlings,
may
loue
vs
for fame naturalf parts or meere
morall vertues,
or
elfe
in
common humanitie
as
members
of
the
fame
ciuill
-or
politicke
bodie
:
but
as
we are
Chriflians
who
haue
given our
names
vnto God
and
deuoted our
felues
to
his
worfhip
and
feruice,the
world
hateth
-vs
and our pro
-
.feflion,religion,
and
all.
the
fruits-and exercifes
offan6tifica-
tion
and
holineffe,
fo
that though
in
other naturall,worldly,
and
meere ciuill
refpecs
it
loueth
vs,
yet
in
regard
of
our re-
generation
and
the fruites
thereof
it cannot
indure
vs, and
our cornpanieand conuerfation
is
exceeding
tedious,
irke-
,,fome
and vnpleafant.
So on
the other
`fide
whereas
Satan
.obie6teth
that
we loue
the
world,that
is, carnal
worldly mc,
we may anfwere,that
euen.as
we
are
regenerate,
it
is
lawfull
;tc