A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

Away then with the earthly fleshly Love. How long will you stay here? And what will Earth and Flesh do for you? So far as it may be helpful to Holiness and Heaven, God will not deny it to submissive Children; but to overlove is to turn from God, and is the dangerous Malady of Souls, and the poise that sinks them down from Heaven. Had you learnt better to forsake all for Christ, and to account all but as Loss and Dung, as Paul did (Phil. 3.8.) you could more easily bear the want of it. When did you see any live in discontent, and distracted with Melancholy, Grief and Cares for want of Dung, or of a Bubble, a Shadow, or a merry Dream? If you will not otherwise know the world, God will otherwise make you know it to your Sorrow.

IV. If you are not satisfied that God alone, Christ alone, Heaven alone is enough for you, as matter of felicity and full content, go study the Case better, and you may be convinced: Go learn better your Catechism, and the Principles of Religion, and then you will learn to lay up a Treasure in heaven, and not on Earth, and to know that its best to be with Christ, and that death which blasteth all the glory of the world, and equalleth the rich and the poor, is the common Door to Heaven or Hell: And then Conscience will not ask you, whether you have lived in pleasure or in pain, in riches or in want? but whether you have lived to God, or to the Flesh? for Heaven or for Earth, and what hath had the preeminence in your hearts and Lives. If there be shame in Heaven, you will be ashamed when you are there, that you whined and murmured for want of any thing that the flesh desired upon Earth, and went thither grieving because your bodies suffered here. Study more to live by Faith on hope, on the unseen promised Glory with Christ, and you will patiently endure any Sufferings in the way.

IV. If you are not satisfyed that God alone, Christ alone, Heaven alone is enough for you, as matter of felicity and full content, go study the Case better, and you may be convinced: Go learn better your Catechism, and the Principles of Religion, and then you will learn to lay up a Treasure in heaven, and not on Earth, and to know that its best to be with Christ, and that death which blasteth all the glory of the world, and equalleth the rich and the poor, is the common Door to Heaven or Hell: And then Conscience will not ask you, whether you have lived in pleasure or in pain, in riches or in want? but whether you have lived to God, or to the Flesh? for Heaven or for Earth, and what hath had the preheminence in your hearts and Lives. If there be shame in Heaven, you will be ashamed when you are there, that you whined and murmured for want of any thing that the flesh desired upon Earth, and went thither grieving because your bodies suffered here. Study more to live by Faith on hope, on the unseen promised Glory with Christ, and you will patiently endure any Sufferings in the way.