The crucifying of the world

2. As the creature is set in competition with God, or in the least degree of Co-ordination with God, so is it to be hated, rejected and crucified. It is Gods prerogative to have Sovereign Interest in the soul: To be esteemed and loved as our chiefest good, and to be depended on as the principal cause of our well-being. The heart he made for himself, and the heart he will have; or else whoever hath it shall have it to its woe. He will be its Rest, or it shall never have Rest: and he will be its Happiness, or it shall be miserable everlastingly. If now the presumptuous world will ⟨p. 12⟩play the Traitor, and seek to dispossess the Sovereign of your souls, its time to use it as a Traitor should be used. If it will needs usurp the place of God, down with that Idol, and deal with it as it deserves. O with what indignation and scorn may the Lord of glory look down upon the dirty worth-less creature, when he seeth it in his throne! What! an earthen God! an aery God! Is gold, and honour, and fleshly pleasures, fit matter to become your God! And with what indignation and scorn should a gracious soul once hear the motion of entertaining such a God! It should be odious to us once to hear a comparison between the living God and the world! as if it would be to us, what he would be or could procure our safety and felicity in his stead. As the Jews would not endure to hear of Christ being their King, but cried out, Away with him, Crucify him, we have no King but Caesar. So must we think and speak of the world when it would be our King; Away with it, crucify it, we have no King but God in Christ. And as the rebellious world saith of Christ, Luke 19. 27. We will not have this man to rule over us; so must we say of the flesh and the world, we will not have them to rule over us. As the churlish Israelite asked Moses (the Prophet like Christ) so must we do the flesh and world; Who made thee a Ruler over us? We may value a very dunghill for the manuring of our Land: but if any man will say, This dunghill is the Sun, which giveth light to the world; the assertion would rather cause derision then belief: Or if you would persuade a man to put it in his bosom or his bed, he would cast it away with abhorrence and disdain, who would not have refused it if you had laid it in his field. The poorest beggar may be regarded in his place;

2. As the creature is set in competition with God, or in the least degree of Co-ordination with God, so is it to be hated, rejected and crucified. It is Gods prerogative to have Soveraign Interest in the soul: To be esteemed and loved as our chiefest good, and to be depended on as the principal cause of our well-being. The heart he made for himself, and the heart he will have; or else whoever hath it shall have it to its woe. He will be its Rest, or it shall never have Rest: and he will be its Happines, or it shall be miserable everlastingly. If now the presumptuous world will