The crucifying of the world

Our own reason may tell us that the righteous God would not send some to Glory with Angels, and others to endless misery with Devils, and make such a difference between men hereafter, if there were not a considerable difference here. He that knows the Law and the fact, may know before your Assizes what will become of every prisoner, if the proceedings be all just; as in our case they will certainly be. Christ will Judge according to his Laws: Know therefore whom the Law condemneth or justifieth, and you may know whom Christ will condemn or justify. And seeing all this is so, doth it not concern us all to make a speedy trial of our selves in preparation to this final trial? I shall for your own sakes therefore take the boldness, as the Officer of Christ, to summon you to appear before your selves, and keep an Assize this day in your own souls, and answer at the Barr of Conscience to what shall be charged upon you. Fear not the trial; for it is not conclusive, final, nor a peremptory irreversible sentence that must now pass: Yet slight it not; for it is a necessary preparative to that which is final and irreversible. Consequentially it may prove a justifying▪ Accusation, an Absolving Condemnation, and if you proceed to Execution, a saving quickening death, which I am now persuading you to undergo. The whole world is divided into two sorts of men: One that Love God above all and live to him, and the other that Love the flesh and world above all and live to them: One that lay up a treasure in earth, and have their heart there: The other that lay up a treasure in heaven, and have their heart there: One that seek first the Kingdom of God and its righteousness; another that seek first the things of this life. One that mind and savour the things of the flesh and of man: the other that mind and savour most the things of the Spirit and of God. One that account all things dung and dross that they may win Christ: another that make light of Christ in comparison of their business, and riches, and pleasures in the world. One that live by sight and sense upon present things: Another that live by faith upon things invisible. One that have their conversation in Heaven, and live as strangers upon earth: Another that mind earthly things, and are strangers to heaven. One ⟨p. 96⟩that have in resolution forsaken a• for Christ and the hopes of a treasure in heaven:

Our own reason may tell us that the righteous God would not send some to Glory with Angels, and others to endless misery with Devils, and make such a difference between men hereafter, if there were not a considerable difference here. He that knows the Law and the fact, may know before your Assizes what will become of every prisoner, if the proceedings be all just; as in our case they will certainly be. Christ will Judge according to his Laws: Know therefore whom the Law condemneth or justifieth, and you may know whom Christ will condemn or justifie. And seeing all this is so, doth it not concern us all to make a speedy tryal of our selves in preparation to this final tryal? I shall for your own sakes therefore take the boldness, as the Officer of Christ, to summon you to appear before your selves, and keep an Assize this day in your own souls, and answer at the Barr of Conscience to what shall be charged upon you. Fear not the tryal; for it is not conclusive, final, nor a peremptory irreversible sentence that must now pass: Yet slight it not; for it is a necessary preparative to that which is final and irreversible. Consequentially it may prove a justifying Accusation, an Absolving Condemnation, and if you proceed to Execution, a saving quickning death, which I am now perswading you to undergo. The whole world is divided into two sorts of men: One that Love God above all and live to him, and the other that Love the flesh and world above all and live to them: One that lay up a treasure in earth, and have their heart there: The other that lay up a treasure in heaven, and have their heart there: One that seek first the Kingdom of God and its righteousness; another that seek first the things of this life. One that mind and savour the things of the flesh and of man: the other that mind and savour most the things of the Spirit and of God. One that account all things dung and dross that they may win Christ: another that make light of Christ in comparison of their business, and riches, and pleasures in the world. One that live by sight and sense upon present things: Another that live by faith upon things invisible. One that have their conversation in Heaven, and live as strangers upon earth: Another that mind earthly things, and are strangers to heaven. One