A25470:855
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
6. Direction.
Understand the world throughly, and be jealous of thy own heart therein: Remember that of the Apostle (who knew what it was to love Christ, as well as any man ever did) 1 Joh. 2.15. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. We may well enough add, Nor the love of the Son: We may offer to our Lord [cor fractum or] a broken heart, but we must not presume to desire him to accept our [cor divisum, or] divided heart: Remember that Christ and the World are two, contrary each to other, and the single stream of love cannot run two contrary ways at once. If our hearts be not crucified to the world, the love of Christ will never live with in us.
Understand the world throughly, and bee jealous of thy own heart therein: Remember that of the Apostle (who knew what it was to love Christ, as well as any man ever did) 1 Joh. 2.15. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Wee may well enough add, Nor the love of the Son: We may offer to our Lord [cor fractum or] a broken heart, but wee must not presume to desire him to accept our [cor divisum, or] divided heart: Remember that Christ and the World are two, contrary each to other, and the single stream of love cannot run two contrary waies at once. If our hearts bee not crucified to the world, the love of Christ will never live with in us.