The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

To note more expressly the quality of this new world,¹ I call it heavenly, as the Scripture doth in divers places, opposing it to that which is terrene and earthly. This is not, saith ^pJAMES, the wisdom that cometh from above, but earthly, natural, devilish. And the Apostle to the Colossians, ^qSeek the things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God: mind the things which are above, not which are upon the earth: Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth, Fornication, Uncleanness, ⟨p. 422⟩&c So to the Philip. ^rWhose end is destruction, which mind earthly things: But our conversation (or, if you will, Free-burgesship) is in Heaven. Wherefore the City, whereof we are thus Free Burgesses, is called, ^sThe City of God, ^tThe holy City, ^uNew Jerusalem, which cometh down from God out of Heaven, ^xJerusalem above, which (as it is there said) is the mother of us all.

To note more expresly the quality of this new world,¹ I call it heauenly, as the Scripture doth in diuers places, opposing it to that which is terrene and earthly. This is not, saith ^pIAMES, the wisdome that commeth from aboue, but earthly, naturall, deuilish. And the Apostle to the Colossians,