Andmy Be/o"Vedismine. things, rhat we may not have fuch beans, as Saint lames fpeakts of, adulterous hearts. 0 yee Adulterers and Adulrerdfes, know you not thar the love of the world is enmity with God. Indeed there is reaf<:>n for this exhortationJor all eanhly thir gs, they are all vaineand.empty things, there is an emptindfe in whatfoevtr is in theworld (fave Chrifi) thereforewe ihould not fet our 3ffeetions too much upon them ; t..Aman Cdnnot he wi(e in lovir.g 'tiny thing hut chrij1 1 a(id what he loverfor chnjf. Therefore let us follow that counfel1,todraw our fdves from QUr f01 mer company,acqttaimance, pleafures, deligh~s, and vanities, we cannot btfiow our love and our af~ feCl:ions better then upon Chrift. It is a happi– neffe that we have fuch affetliorns,as joy, delight and love planted in us by God: and what a hap-: pineffe is ir, that we fl1ould have fuch anexcel– ient object to fill thofe affeCtions, yea to tran– fcend and more then fatisfie them. 1herefore 447· ) SER.XX. I 1 the Apofile wiilieth that they may know all the . J demenfioris of Gods love in ChriH, there is a 1height, bredth, le11gth, and depth of the love of Eph.~ 18 • God. And let us think ofthe demenlions,the height, bredth, and depth ofour mifery out of Chrift. The more excellent our natures are, the more miferable they are ifnor changed;for looke what degree of excellency we have (if it be not ad~ vanced in Chrifi) we have fo much miferybe– ing our ofhim;therefore let us labour tQ fee this, as
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