Ver.14. the 17th Chapter of St. JOHN. 209 argue too much of the Spirit of the World. God would have us look no further than the prefent day : Sufficient for each day is the Evil thereof, Mat. 6. 34. God is very careful of our good. He hath made Corking a Sin, he might have left it as a PuníQi- ment. 8. By excefve delight in worldly Comforts. A Man may be worldly, that is not corking and ravenous : Efau faith, I have enough, my Brother, Gen. 33.9. Your too much complacency is á great Sin. When Men are fatisfied with the prefent Portion, it is as great, if not a greater Sin than to deliire more. Luke 12. 19. Soul, thou hall watch Goods laid up for many Tears ; take thine cafe, eat, drink, and be merry He took too great delight in his Portion; they blefs themfelves in their worldly Enjoyments, as if they had happinefsenough. Pfal. 62, lo. Trull not in OppreJon, became not vain in Robbery : if Riches encreafe, fit not your Heart upon them ; not in point of Delight and Trutt. Your Delight Ihould not be terminated on the Creature. 9. By envying the worldly Happinefs that-others enjoy. This is a great fault in the Children of God, you are not of this World. Tho you have not fuch softly Furni- ture, rare Accommodations as others have ; tho you are not the World's Fendlings, dandled on the World's Knees, you have á better Portion in Chrift. Pfal.4. 7. Thou haft put gladnefi in my Heart, more than the time when their Corn and their Wine increafed. I is a difparagement to your Privileges and Hopes. Pfal. 17. 14.. From Men which are shy Hand, 0 Lord, from ,Alen of the World, which have their portion in this Life, and whofe Belly thou fillefi with hid Treafures : they are full of Children, and leave the refs of their Subjiance to their Babes. It is your time to be Princes in difguife. The lefs fplen- dor in the World, the more luftre in Grace. Grace would not be fo eminent, if worldly Glory were greater. Who that is owner of a Palace, would envy another a Dunghil? Secondly ; A worldly Converfation : which is feen in two things. 1. Immoderate Endeavours for the World, to the neglelt of God. Luke 12.24. So is he that layeth upTreafure for himfilf, and is not rich towards God. All things mutt be looked after in fubordination to God. When Sarah faw Ifhmael fcoffing at Iliac, the thruft him out of Doors. When Mammon upbraideth God, and worldly Things in- croach, and allow God no room but in the Confcience, then we are immoderate. 2. Carnal Compliance. The Worldling ferveth the Times; cozeneth, lieth, cheat - eth, hateth Chrift : So mutt not you. z John ç. 19: And we know that we are of God, and the whole World lieth in wickednefs, as a Carrion in a Sink. 1. Confider your Condition, you are ftrangers. The Fathers of old dwelt in Tents; we never read that Abraham made any purchafe, but of a Grave. Cain built Cities. David was a King, yet a Stranger. Pfal. 39. 1 a. For I am a Stranger with thee, and a Sojourner, as all my Fathers were. The World is not our Country. The Fathers of the Old Teftament, for the moot part, lived a wandring Life. Heb. 11. r}. For they that fay filch things, declare plainly, that they feek a Country. 7acob paffed over Jordan with a Staff, Gen. 32. lo. it is a moll unbefeeming thing as can be, for one that profeffeth himfelf a Chriutian, to take up with the Things of this World. 2. Confider, iris a dithonour to God, and a fcandal to Religion, to be of a worldly Convcrfation, to profefs an Interelt in Chrift, and yet run after loch low things. Dddd SERM.
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