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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) Love to the World breeds Confidence in the World, whereby the heart is turned off from its Dependence on God, as its first cause. And O! how inconsistent is this with the love of God? God, as he is our Last End in point of Fruition, so also our first principle, or Cause in point of Dependence. Now love to the world turns the heart from God to the World, not only as the last end, but also as the First Cause. They that love the world cast the weight of their souls, and chiefest concerns on the World; and so bid Adieu to God. This Confidence in worldly things is inconsistent with Salvation, and so with the Love of God; as Mark 10.24. How hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God? This Rhetoric Interrogation implies a Logic negation, namely, that it is impossible for one, that in a prevalent degree trusteth in his riches, to enter into the Kingdom of God. So Psal. 52.7. Lo this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted ⟨p. 77⟩in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened, (or fortified) himself in his wickedness (or substance.) The like Prov. 11.28. Ezek. 16.15. 1 Tim. 6.17.
(3) Love to the World breeds Confidence in the World, whereby the heart is turned off from its Dependence on God, as its first cause. And O! how inconsistent is this with the love of God? God, as he is our Last End in point of Fruition, so also our first principle, or Cause in point of Dependence. Now love to the world turns the heart from God to the World, not only as the last end, but also as the First Cause. They that love the world cast the weight of their souls, and chiefest concerns on the World; and so bid Adieu to God. This Confidence in worldly things is inconsistent with Salvation, and so with the Love of God; as Mark 10.24. How hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God? This Rhetorick Interrogation implies a Logick negation, namely, that it is impossible for one, that in a prevalent degree trusteth in his riches, to enter into the Kingdom of God. So