The crucifying of the world

1. Is it just or pious that Christ should lose the honour of his mercies, merely because he hath bestowed them on us? Doth that make them no mercies: Or rather make them the greater mercies? Shall his grace be vilified, because he makes thy soul the subject of it? Why then it seems you would have thanked him more to have kept his mercy to himself.

1. Is it just or pious that Christ should lose the honour of his mercies, meerly because he hath bestowed them on us? Doth that make them no mercies: Or rather make them the greater mercies? Shall his grace be villified, because he makes thy soul the subject of it? Why then it seems you would have thanked him more to have kept his mercy to himself.

2. Is Christ ever the less Christ, because he dwells in the hearts of Believers? Eph. 3. 17. And will you pretend to honour Christ without you, and deny him his honour within you, even because he is within you? Yea and will pretend that it is for the honour of Christ thus to dishonour him? and tell men that they ⟨p. 228⟩deny or overlook it, because they admire him within them, as well as without them? If Paul say, [I have laboured more abundantly then they all▪ and add when he hath done, [Yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me; and by the grace of God I am what I am; and his Grace which was bestowed on me was not in vain,] 1 Cor. 15. 10. will you tell him that he exalteth himself against Grace? No: but he exalteth Grace in himself. Paul travailed in birth of the Galatians till Christ-were formed in them, Gal. 4. 19. And must not he and they observe and honour Christ •n them after all this travail, If we glory that we [are Crucified with Christ, and that we live] we always add or understand [yet not we, but Christ liveth in us, and the life which we now live in the flesh, we live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved us, and gave himself for us,