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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 3: Wherein the love of the world is inconsistent with the love of God. Serm. III.
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.
3. Prop. To love the World is to have the heart bound up in, and made one with the world. All love tends to Union: and to have the Heart planted in, and incorporated with the World argues a predominant love thereto. Thus in our text, [Greek or Hebrew], love not the world, i. e. Let not your hearts be implanted, glued, or nailed to the world: let not your thoughts and affections run so deep into the world, as to become one with it. The more any love the world, the more their hearts are united to, and incorporated with it. The Alligation and adherence of the heart to the Creature is the natural effect of predominant love thereto. Love to the world is ⟨p. 72⟩the nail or glue, whereby the heart is fastened to it. Thus Hos. 4.17. Ephraim is joined to Idols. [Greek or Hebrew] is fastened or glued, so as to become one therewith. Whereby the prophet teacheth us that Israel's heart was bound fast by indissoluble bonds to his Idols, so that it could not be plucked thence.
3. Prop. To love the World is to have the heart bound up in, and made one with the world. All love tends to Union: and to have the Heart planted in, and incorporated with the World argues a predominant love thereto. Thus in our text, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, love not the world, i. e. Let not your hearts be implanted, glued, or nailed to the world: let not your thoughts and affections run so deep into the world, as to become one with it. The more any love the world, the more their hearts are united to, and incorporated with it. The Alligation and adherence of the heart to the Creature is the natural effect of predominant love thereto. Love to the world is ⟨p. 72⟩the nail or glue, whereby the heart is fastened to it. Thus Hos. 4.17. Ephraim is joyned to Idols. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is fastened or glued, so as to become one therewith. Whereby the prophet teacheth us that Israel's heart was bound fast by indissoluble bonds to his Idols, so that it could not be plucked thence.