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3. When we have renounced the authority of all these, and their sufficiency; Then thirdly, Never love them more, let not thy affections be hankering after them; a servant if he be once out of a bad service, he never returns thither again. Matth. 4 20. They left their Nets and followed Christ. Matth. 8. When the Disciple would go bury his father, Christ would not let him return again, Let the dead bury the dead, saith our Saviour: so let not us have our hearts hankering after them, when we have rid our fingers of them, as Lots wife did after Sodom; therefore look not back, bestow not thy heart upon them; and if thou canst thus follow him, thou art a Disciple of our Saviour: but if you know any thing that hath authority, or sufficiency, or is to be loved besides Christ, in a fit opportunity you will forsake Christ, and stick to it: therefore, I beseech you, look to it.

3. When we have renounced the authority of all these, and their sufficiencie; Then thirdly, Never love them more, let not thy affections be hankering after them; a servant if he be once out of a bad service, he never returnes thither againe. Matth. 4 20. They left their Nets and followed Christ. Matth. 8. When the Disciple would goe bury his father, Christ would not let him returne againe, Let the dead bury the dead, saith our Saviour: so let not us have our hearts hankering after them, when we have rid our fingers of them, as Lots wife did after Sodome; therefore looke not backe, bestow not thy heart upon them; and if thou canst thus follow him, thou art a Disciple of our Saviour: but if you know any thing that hath authority, or sufficiencie, or is to be loved besides Christ, in a fit opportunity you will forsake Christ, and stick to it: therefore, I beseech you, looke to it.