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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
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.
9. Hence also conclude, That such as love the world hate God and their own ⟨p. 83⟩souls. That predominant Love to the world, in its proper notion, includes the hatred of God, is evident, from the whole of our discourse: That it implies also hatred of our selves, is manifest, because the hatred of God includes love to death, and so by Consequence the hatred of our own souls, as Prov. 8.36. All they that hate me, Love death, i. e. in its Causes. Oh! how cursed are such as cry up the world, and cry down Christ?
10. Lastly, this Case, as before stated, is a good Key to open some dark and hard sayings in Scripture: As that, Mat. 19.24. It is easier for a camel to go through an eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God. Which is a proverbial speech, denoting how difficult a thing it is for any rich man, but how impossible it is for him that has a predominant love to his riches, and so confidence in them, to enter into the Kingdom of God, as Mark 10.24.
10. Lastly, this Case, as before stated, is a good Key to open some dark and hard sayings in Scripture: As that, Mat. 19.24. It is easier for a camel to go thorow an eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God. Which is a proverbial speech, denoting how difficult a thing it is for any rich man, but how impossible it is for him that has a predominant love to his riches, and so confidence in them, to enter into the Kingdom of God, as Mark 10.24.