The crucifying of the world

MY second Question to you is this: You that are so loath to part with the world and be Crucified to it, tell me, What hath it done for you? that you should be so fond of it, and that it should seem worthy of such estimation and affection? Hath it not put you to more care and sorrow then it is worth? It never gave you solid Peace! it never made you acceptable to God! You are not a jot better when you are rich, then when you are poor; unless grace do that for you that riches cannot; nay and grace must do it not only without, but against your riches. All that the world can do for you, is but to satisfy your sensual appetite, and by the superfluity to please a Covetous mind. And is this a matter of so great worth? A beast may have his sensual delight as well as you? And if man be better then a beast, do you think he is not capable of a better and higher delight then beasts? Will you call your selves Men and Christians, and yet take up with the pleasures of a brute, and there place your happiness? If the drunkard have an hundred barrels of Ale or Wine more then he can drink, this doth not so much as ⟨p. 130⟩please his appetite; but only his fa•••: So if you have never so much riches more then your flesh •• self hath use for, this only pleaseth a covetous fancy. All that you enjoy is but so much as may satisfy the lu••s of your flesh. And I pray you tell me, Whether you do not your selves believe that a sober, temperate, heavenly Christian doth live as comfortable a life as you? And, Whether they have not more peace in their minds without your sinful sensual delights, then you have with them? Indeed it is but the distemper of your minds that makes that so pleasant to you, which another that is well in his wits would be weary of: As the swine takes pleasure to tumble in the mire, which a wise man would not do. Do you not sin against your own experience! Have you not found, that the world is an unsatisfactory thing, and cannot help you in a day of trouble? And yet will you stick to it?