The crucifying of the world

9. You are also guilty of the high contempt of the Kingdom of Glory, while you prefer these transitory things before it. Your hearts and lives speak that which you are ashamed to speak with your tongues. You are ashamed to say that Earth is better for you then Heaven, or that your sin is better for you then the favour of God: but your lives speak it out. If you think not your present condition better for you then heaven, why do you choose and prefer it? and why do you more carefully and laboriously seek the things of earth, then the Heavenly Glory? If your child would sell his inheritance for a cup of Ale, you would think he set light by it: And if he would part with father and mother for the company of a beggar or a thief, you would say he had no great love to you. And if you will venture your part in heaven for the pleasures of sin, and will part with God for the matters of this world, would you have him think that you set much by his Kingdom or his love? O the unreasonableness of sin! the madness of worldly fleshly men! Is it indeed more desirable to prosper in their shops, their fields, and their pleasures for a few days or years, then everlastingly to live in the presence of the Lord? Shall Christ purchase a Kingdom at the price of his blood, and offer it us freely, and shall we prefer the life of a brute before it? Shall God offer to advance so mean a creature to an heavenly station among his Angels; and shall we choose rather to wallow in the dung of our Transgressions? Take heed, lest as you are guilty of Esau's folly, you also meet with Esau's misery! and the time should come, that you shall find no place for Repentance, that is, for Recovery by Repentance, though you seek it with tears. Contempt of kindness, is a provoking thing: For it is the height of ingratitude. And especially when it is the greatest kindness that is contemned. As it will be the everlasting employment of the Saints, to enjoy that ⟨p. 114⟩felicity, and to admire and praise that infinite Love which caused them to enjoy it: So will it be the everlasting misery of the damned, to be deprived of that felicity, and to think of their folly in the unthankful contempt of it; and of the excellency of that Kingdom which thus they did contemn. God sets before you Earth and Heaven: If you choose earth, expect no more: And hereafter, Remember, that you had your choice.

9. You are also guilty of the high contempt of the Kingdom of Glory, while you prefer these transitory things before it. Your hearts and lives speak that which you are ashamed to speak with your tongues. You are ashamed to say that Earth is better for you then Heaven, or that your sin is better for you then the favour of God: but your lives speak it out. If you think not your present condition better for you then heaven, why do you choose and prefer it? and why do you more carefully and laboriously seek the things of earth, then the Heavenly Glory? If your child would sell his inheritance for a cup of Ale, you would think he set light by it: And if he would part with father and mother for the company of a beggar or a thief, you would say he had no great love to you. And if you will venture your part in heaven for the pleasures of sin, and will part with God for the matters of this world, would you have him think that you set much by his Kingdom or his love? O the unreasonableness of sin! the madness of worldly fleshly men! Is it indeed more desirable to prosper in their shops, their fields, and their pleasures for a few daies or years, then everlastingly to live in the presence of the Lord? Shall Christ purchase a Kingdom at the price of his blood, and offer it us freely, and shall we prefer the life of a bruit before it? Shall God offer to advance so mean a creature to an heavenly station among his Angels; and shall we choose rather to wallow in the dung of our Transgressions? Take heed, lest as you are guilty of Esau's folly, you also meet with Esau's misery! and the time should come, that you shall find no place for Repentance, that is, for Recovery by Repentance, though you seek it with tears. Contempt of kindness, is a provoking thing: For it is the height of ingratitude. And especially when it is the greatest kindness that is contemned. As it will be the everlasting imployment of the Saints, to enjoy that