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eafons rooming. vs to f gbs again /l the world. 2 t an ambaffage offharpe reproofe. wouldell thau(faid he) help the wicked,and loue them that hate the Lord ? therefore for this thing,the l%rath of the Lord is upon thee. a.Chro.I9.2. 2.Chron.T94. Secondly,ofneceflìtie wee muflrenounce the world, and 4.Sec7.4. flying out of this fpirituall Babylon adioyne our felues vn- Vnlr fé lone re. to the kingdome oflefusChrift,or elfe we cannot be recko- nanntethe ned In the number of the faith full,nor haue any part in their rooroid,wt a not of henuare m_ priuiledgcs. Wee midi bee fheepe ofChrifis flocke feuered ber oftbe fault. tbd from the goates,or die we (hail haue no (hare in the benefit fall. of his death and interceffion. For Chrifl hath chofen his faithful! ones out ofthe world,and bath diffranchifed them of all the carnall liberties thereof, as Toone as he made them partakers of that glorious libertie of being the fonnes of God. So bee faith, that bccaufe the faithful! are not of the Ioh.rs.r9. tborld, 614t he had chofen them out of the world, therefore the world hateththem. And more plainlyelfewhere : They (fai th Ioh.r7.i6, !se) are not of the world,as lam not of the world. And as thole who adhere to the world cannot be reckoned in the num- ber of the faithful!, fo can they haue no intereft in the death and mediation ofChrifl, or in any other benefits which are appropriated vnto them, as their peculiar priuileges. For Chrifl laid dome hie life for his ovine fbeepe,and not for goates Ioh.toa s. and wolues,he be[faxed hislife for hit friends alone,an d there- Ioh.r 5.1 3- fore not for worldlings,who are firangers, or ratherprofef- fed enemies; hee gane himfelfe for his Church, and conic- Eph.s.z3. quently thofe who are feuered from the communion of Saints,and adhere to the world, which is the fynagogue of Satan, haue no intereli in this gift.And as they haueno part in his death, fo neither any benefit in his intercellion ; for himfelfe bath excluded them in that diuine prayer which he made to his father: I pray (faith he) for them, l pray not 1- .11.17. for the world, but for them which thou hall giuen mee. Heere therefore wee are put to our choice; either wee mull re- nounce the world, or renounce our part in Chrifl; we muff with the bleffedApofile be crucified and die to the world, Gal..14; or elfe wee can haue no benefit in the death of Chrifl; Wee mull ceafe to be citizens of the world, and dticlaime our in- Weft in his finful vanities,or we fh Il haue no Qart in Chrifls C 3 tncu_auon