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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Book 1 › Chapter 2 › Section 1: The Duty of looking off all other things, confirmed, and cleared.
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3. The preferring of the world before Christ himself. This is the height of covetousness, and the height of this adultery; what, to make the members of Christ the members of an harlot? Why worldlings! those admiring thoughts are Christs, those pains are Christs, that love is Christs, that time, that care, that earnestness is Christs, they are all Christs; and will you give that which is Christs unto the world? and prefer the world before Christ with his own? What, live as professed prostitutes, that prefer every one before their husbands? how will this expose you to the scorn of men and Angels? at the last day thy will come pointing, and say, This is the man that made not God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches; 1this is the Gadarene that loved his swine more than Christ Jesus. Love not the world, said John. 2Christ is never precious in mans apprehension, so long as the world seems glorious to him. As we begin to relish sweetness in Christ, so the world begins to be bitter to us: 3the more sweetness we taste in the one, the more bitterness we taste in the other.
3. The preferring of the world before Christ himself. This is the height of covetousness, and the height of this adultery; what, to make the members of Christ the members of an harlot? Why worldlings! those admiring thoughts are Christs, those pains are Christs, that love is Christs, that time, that care, that earnestness is Christs, they are all Christs; and will you give that which is Christs unto the world? and prefer the world before Christ with his own? What, live as professed prostitutes, that prefer every one before their husbands? how will this expose you to the scorn of men and Angels? at the last day thy will come pointing, and say, This is the man that made not God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches; 1this is the Gadaren that loved his swine more than Christ Jesus. Love not the world, said John. 2Christ is never precious in mans apprehension, so long as the world seems glorious to him. As we begin to relish sweetness in Christ, so the world begins to be bitter to us: