6~ An Expo{iti011, -with Notts t0 the flefh: Poverty u prefermeHt; Servants anE'reemen, the Lords freemen, 1 Cor. 7• 22. Thepriviledges ofChri{fianity take ·offall the ignominy of the World. Chriftian Slaves and Vaifals are yet delivered from the tyranny ofSatan, the Oavery of ltn, therefore he faith, they ate the Londsfr.t~m~!1. So lam. 2. 5. Hathnot qod ·chofen the poor .in thu World·t» ·be rich i-n faith? S'pititual trea– fure ahd inward richesare thebeU. A~hrifihns life is full of- mi– fieries, poor, ttndyet rich, b.aje; and yet ex~tlted; lhut out -of the WorlQ, and yet admitted into the company-of Saints and ·Angels; flighted , yet denr t'o God : The Worlds dirt, and Gods jewels: ln one pb.ce 'cis faid, I Cor.. 4- I 3-· We ar:e counted M the fcurf -and ojf-fi:o'uring of the earth.: And in another, M al. j. 17. I will mak.!: up my "jewels. Not a foot 'Cf Land, yet an intereft in the L..md of (]Jromife, a !hare in the inheritance 6£ the Sainrs in light; you fee every thing is amply made up in another way. Do buc con– fider the nature o~ your privi.~edges, aad you cann~t but count them apreferment ;. you are t:a:lled ~o -be fons of G-od, · Joh. 1. I z, He vouchfafed thems~!0:~~, t foe priv.iled_g, 6r prerogativ e, tfJ be– co7J!e the Jons of God : So a1fo., M embers of Chrift, and what a door of hopt;> cloth that open to yi!>U? So alfo, Heirs of the Pro– mifes., joynt_heirs With ChYift; Rom. 8. 17. -So alfo, Partakfrs of ·the divine nature, 2 Pt t. I. 4· and what·apriviledg is that? That we ihoul<:l be fevered from the vile World, andguildedwithglory, when we might have fiood hke rottenpofts! That we fhould be united to Chrifl:, when, like ·dryed Lelff.Vm, we might have been driven to and fro throt:lghout ·the e~rth. Well then, 1. Never quarrel with Pro¥idence : Though you have not other things, rejo}'ce in this, that you ·have the beft 'thingr; foie adoption is worth a!f t hc'Yvorld: Do hot complain, that you have not the gold, if you have the k.J(s. I allude to that known fiory in Xeno– phon, Never envy the worlds mjoymems, no though you fee men Wiclzedand undefer·ving; to marmur under any fuch pretence is but di[gujff:d envy : Confider God hath-called you to another ad– vancement, you !ln againfl: the bounty of God, ifyou do .n.ot value ir above all the pomp and glory of the creatures; they are full and jhining, but,your Comfort~ are b-etter and morefatisjjing, I Tim. 6. 6. Godlinefs 'With contentmen~- u great gain; or it maybe~ead,' Godlin(fi t&great g;ain \}Vith conrenrm"t-nt, inoppolttion toworld– ly.gain: Meh maygain t»uch, but they are'itot fatis.fted :; but god- - · linefs
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