CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

¹Obs. That the people of God they are called out of the world; He that is truly godly is no more a man of this world, as we say of a dying man, he is not for this world, his heart, his thoughts, his desires are quite taken off; Thus the godly are said to be dead and crucified to the world, Gal. 6.14. They have not those carnal worldly affections and dispositions as formerly, and from hence the people of God are called Ecclesia, the Church, as much as persons called out of the world, not bodily but in respect of their souls, and hence the world and the Church is opposed, 1 Cor. 5.10. The Fornicators of this world, in opposition to the Church, so that by this we see there is none in the Church of God, but they should have renounced the ways, customs, and sins of the world; To be a Christian and yet of the world is a contradiction, as if we should say a black Sun; yet how is the garden of God made a Wilderness? how is the Church become the world? So much profaneness, wickedness, and carnal living as there is, so much of the world there is; Oh that men did consider what an holy obligation their Christianity brings upon them, Art thou a Christian, and yet the drunkard of the world? the fornicator of the world, the proud, the earthly of the world, this ought not to be, no more then the Angel a worm, no more then a Star a clod of earth; The Apostle calls those of the world without, What have we to do to judge those that are without? 1 Cor. 5, ult. but those of the Church within; Oh but how many ••e• within, according to Christs Rule ought to be turned out of Christs sheepfold.

¹Obs. That the people of God they are called out of the world; He that is truly godly is no more a man of this world, as we say of a dying man, he is not for this world, his heart, his thoughts, his desires are quite taken off; Thus the godly are said to be dead and crucified to the world, Gal. 6.14. They have not those carnal worldly affections and dispositions as formerly, and from hence the people of God are called Ecclesia, the Church, as much as persons called out of the world, not bodily but in respect of their souls, and hence the world and the Church is opposed,