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CHRISTFhNITT.
DEAN.. H.
and demonstration
;
this witnessed
the
truth
and divi-
nity
of
the gospel
of
Grist
beyond all
contradictions or
doubt.
II.
A
contempt of
this world,
is
another
part of
holi-
ness,
and
of
heaven
;
a
sacred disregard
of
temporal
things raised
by
the sight
of
things
eternal.
If
we
look upwards
to heaven,
we
shall
behold
there
all the
inhabitants
looking
down with
a sacred contempt
upon
the
trifles,
amusements,
businesses,
and cares
of
this
presentlife,
that
engross
our
affections;
awaken
our
desires,
fill
our hearts
with
pleasure or
pain,
and our
flesh
with
constant
labour.
With
what
holy
scorn do
you
think
those
souls, who
are
dismissed from
flesh,
look
down
upon
the
hurries and bustles
of
this
present
state,
in which
we
are engaged
?
They
dwell
in the
full
sight
of
those glories
which,
they hoped for
here
on
earth,
and
their intimate acquaintance
with the
pleasures
of
that
upper
wórld,
and the
divine
sensations
that
are raised
in them there, make them contemn all the
pleasures of
this state, and every thing
below heaven.
This
is
a
part
of
eternal
life,
this belongs in some
degree
to
every
believer;
for he
is
not a
believer
that
is
not
got above
this world
in
a
good
measure
;
he
is
not
a christian,
who
is
not
weaned, in some degree, from this world
For
this
is
our
victory, whereby
we
overcome
the world,
even
our
faith.
Ile
that
is
born of God,
overcomes
the
world;
he
that
believes
in
Jesus,
is
born
of
God,
1
John
v.
1,
4.
Whence
the
argument
is
plain, he
that
be-
lieves
in
Jesus, the
Son
of
God; overcomes
this
present
world. And where
christianity
is
raised
to
a
good degree
of
life
and
power
in
the
soul,
there
we see
the
christian
got near
to heaven
:
he
is,
as
it
were,
a
fellow
for
angels,
a
fit
companion
for
the spirits
of the
just
made perfect.
The
affairs
of
this
life
are beneath
his
best desires
and
his hopes
;
he
engages
his
hand
in
them
so
far
as
God
his
Father appoints
his
duty; but
he longs for
the
upper
world,
where
his
hopes
are
,gone
before:
"When
shall
Ì
be
entirely
dismissed from this
labour and
toil?
The
gaudy pleasures
this world
entertains
me
with,
are
'no,
entertainments
to
me;
I
am
weaned
from
them,
I
am
born
from
above."
This
is
the language
of that
faith
that
overcomes the world
:
And faith,
whew it
it