Naturald'attoheart very bafe. 26I is very- baf 1j' minded, very di.fhonourablydifpoftd, like the decrepcd mon,an in theGefpcll,..he is altogether boweddown, . and wholy bent to the things which are here below, min-, ding only .thing" earthly, wallowing like a Swine in the dirt and mire of .the world, and flefhly lulls-; but when Chrift lives in man, .When he puts the lifè cf-grace. into man, he ennobles the heart of man, communicates a: heavenly dif potation to him, and puts the whole man into ,a heaven- ly frame,, and fets his heart to feeke the thing" whicharea. hove, he rayfeth his heart, his thoughts, his delires to the love, meditation and feeking ofthings fpirituall, as he ray- fad the body of Lazarue from the grave : hee makes man to look upon the world, as upon a Z thing of nought , to.; i P;o...g,, repute all the fullneffe of the Earth as dung and droffe in. 3 comparifon ofChrifl, to leave all and follow Chrill,as 8- lifba left his-yoakcs of Oxen and followed E%ah ; having ; Chrift living in him, he minds Chrift, adheres to Chrilf,_ purfues and followes after Chrift, makes Chrift his crown Nurmb /4 z and portion :- he hath an a excellent Spirit., like the. Spirit Hcb. g. of Chrift, contemning the glory of the world; as Chrift contemned it,. with MQrer:reput.ing the reproach ofChrift, greater riches then the treafures of (I/Egypt ; defpifing. all the prefersand perfwafions ofthe Earth, not regarding allthe cominations of the world ; hee choofeth rather with the three children to walke with Chrift. in the fiery-" fornace, b Dan 3. then to live without Chrift in the choyfeft- earthly pa,llace. He had rather be nayled with Chrift to the croffe, then let with Herod upon the throne. He faith to-ahe. men ofthe world, as Abraham in another cafe to the Kingof-Sodome; give me the perfon", take thou, the f bftance, give me Chrift;: . take ye the world, give me.things, heavenly and eternal-1i... take ye things -earthly and tem;porall. He that hath Chrift living in him reputes the world as nothing, Chrift isboth-his crowne, joy and portion. 7. In regard oftheirhonourable walking, ,whohaveChrift 7.Rtanourabk - living in them-,. they-- c walke, in the Spirit, faith the Apo- walking, file ; the Spirit moves and guides them towalke according Gal.q.sg. to thatrule which-the Spirit : hath, in the word propofed: to them,-
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