But converting Grace sets all in order again, and puts God in the Throne, and the world at his Footstool, Psal. 73. 25. Christ in the heart, and the World under Feet, Eph. 3. 17. Rev. 12. 1. So Paul, I am crucified to the World, and the World to me, Gal. 6. 14. Before this change all the cry was, Who will show us any (worldly) good? but now he sings another tune, Lord list thou up the light of thy Countenance upon me, and take the Corn and Wine whoso will, Psal. 4. 6, 7. Before, his hearts delight and content was in the World; then the Song was, Soul take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry, thou hast much Goods laid up for many Years; but now all this is withered, and there is no comeliness that he should desire it, and he tunes up with the sweet Psalmist of Israel, The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance; the Lines are fallen to me in a fair place, and I have a goodly heritage. He blesses himself, and boasts himself in God, Psal. 34. 2. Lam. 3. 24. nothing else can give him con•ent. He hath written Vanity and Vexation upon all his Worldly Enjoyments, Eccles. 1. 2. and loss and dung upon all humane Excellencies, Phil. 3. 7, 8. He hath life and immortality now in chase, Rom. 2. 7. he trades for grace and glory, and hath a Crown incorruptible in pursuit, 1 Cor. 9. 25. His Heart is set in him to seek the Lord, 1 Chron. 22. 19. and 2 Chron. 15. 15. He first seeks the Kingdom of Heaven and the Righteousness thereof, and Religion ⟨p. 37⟩is no longer a matter by the by with him, but the main of his care, Mat. 6. 33. Psalm 27. 4. Now the gaudy Idol is become Nehushtan, 2 Kin. 18. 4. and he gets up and treads upon it, as Diogenes trampling on Plato's hangings, saying Calco, Platonis fastum. Before the World had the swaying interest with him • he would do more for gain than godliness, 1 Tim. 6. 6. more to pleasure his friend; or his flesh, than to please the God that made him, and God must stand by till the world were first served; but now all must stand by; he hates father, and mother, and life, and all in comparison of Christ, Luke 1. 26.
But converting Grace sets all in order again, and puts God in the Throne, and the world at his Footstool, Psal. 73. 25. Christ in the heart, and the World under Feet, Eph. 3. 17. Rev. 12. 1. So Paul, I am crucified to the World, and the World to me, Gal. 6. 14. Before this change all the cry was, Who will shew us any (worldly) good? but now he sings another tune, Lord list thou up the light of thy Countenance upon me, and take the Corn and Wine whoso will, Psal. 4. 6, 7. Before, his hearts delight and content was in the World; then the Song was, Soul take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry, thou hast much Goods laid up for many Years; but now all this is withered, and there is no comliness that he should desire it, and he tunes up with the sweet Psalmist of Israel, The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance; the Lines are fallen to me in a fair place, and I have a goodly heritage. He blesses himself, and boasts himself in God, Psal. 34. 2. Lam. 3. 24. nothing else can give him con•ent. He hath written Vanity and Vexation upon all his Worldly Enjoyments, Eccles. 1. 2. and loss and dung upon all humane Excellencies, Phil. 3. 7, 8. He hath life and immortality now in chase, Rom. 2. 7. he trades for grace and glory, and hath a Crown incorruptible in pursuit, 1 Cor. 9. 25. His Heart is set in him to seek the Lord, 1 Chron. 22. 19. and 2 Chron. 15. 15. He first seeks the Kingdom of Hearen and the Righteousness thereof, and Religion ⟨p. 37⟩
