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Our. Are we led aside with worldly affections, and a having covetousness? know, nothing is Ours but JESUS CHRIST.^b I determined not to know any thing among you, but Jesus Christ, and him crucified. This was that blessed Apostles resolution. Love him above all: nil contra eum, nil supra eum, nil sicut eum, nil praeter eum, nisi quod propter eum. Affect nothing against him, nothing above him, nothing like him, nothing besides him, but what only for him. Behold, saith Peter, we have left all and followed thee, Matth. 19.27. they lost nothing by it, Ver. 28. When I sit on my throne, ye shall sit on thrones with me. If CHRIST, be ours, all is ours, 1 Cor. 3.22. All things are yours; whether Apostles, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours, and ye are Christs, and Christ is Gods. In this heavenly conveyance, there is. 1. The Tenure, of great Latitude; All things. 2. The Tenants, of great happiness, Ours. 3. The Heir, of great excellency, CHRIST. 4. The Land-lord, of great majesty, God. It is said of the wicked, Jon. 2.8. that they forsake their own mercy. Their own, as proper to them, more certain than the skin to their flesh, if they would have kept it: but as Christ said to the Jews, Noluistis, you would not. Qui relinquit suum, ut arripiat alienum: retinebit nec alienum, nec suum. He that forsakes his own to snatch away another's, shall neither keep another's nor his own. See what you do ye covetous: you leave your own CHRIST, for the world that is not yours; the substance for the shadow: and you shall lose both shadow and substance. Ours: this is the encouragement of faith and obedience: why do we so labour to be his, but because ⟨p. 179⟩we are sure he is ours? every man loves his own; let us never forsake our own Jesus.

Our. Are we led aside with worldly affections, and a having covetousnesse? know, nothing is Ours but IESUS CHRIST.^b I determined not to know any thing among you, but Iesus Christ, and him crucified. This was that blessed Apostles resolution. Love him above all: nil contra eum, nil supra eum, nil sicut eum, nil praeter eum, nisi quod propter eum. Affect nothing against him, nothing above him, nothing like him, nothing besides him, but what onely for him. Behold, saith Peter, we have left all and followed thee,