CploQnattí ofpeace Openeia. 247 forbid that' 1 fhould Glory, fave in the Croft of our Lord Yefu,s Chrif, by whom the World is Cru- cified unto me, andI unto theWorld. TheWarltl carethnot for them, and they care not for the World, they are dead to the Honours, Plea- füres, and Riches of the World ; Mofes con- temnedall the Glory of Pharaoh's Court, yea, all the Pleafures of Sin and Riches of Egypt and fo do all, God's fincere People contemn this World: If any Man love the World, the love , Job. 2. of theFather is not in him. 15 3. They that are God's peculiar People, are become dead to the Law, to that cruel Husband, and to all their own Righteoufnefs, accounting Phil.3.8,9 it but Dung, or a dead Carkafe, or Dogs-meat in comparifon of Chrift ; re alto are become km7.4 dead to the Law by the Body of Chrift, &c. The Union with that Husband is difI'olved, they feeknot Life and Juftification by the Law, or are not in love with Self-Righteoufnefs, but dead to it, whilft others make an Idol of it, and truft in it. 4. They have renounced themfelves alfo, and confefs they arenot their own, but that their Souls, their Bodies, their Substance, their Graces, their Gifts,their Time, their Strength, their Lips, and their Lives are all the Lord's, and for him ; for as all that God hash which is communicable is theirs, or freely imparted to them, and for them ; fo all they are and have, they account it is the Lord's, they being but onlyStewards of all they haveand do poffefs Shall fuch think that they are the Lord's who live to themfelves, feek themfelves, or only F 4 bring
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