Two treatises of Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs. The first of earthly-mindedness

The fifth Direction.

But above all, the setting Jesus Christ before you, and ⟨p. 88⟩the meditating of the death of Jesus Christ: (I say) that's the great thing that will take off the heart from the things of the earth: The looking upon Christ Crucified; how he that was the Lord of Heaven and Earth, yet what a low condition he put Himself into, merely for the redeeming of us! The conversing much with the death of Jesus Christ deeds the heart much to the world. In the 3. to the Philippians we have a notable text for that, in the example of Paul, he accounted all things as dung and dross for Jesus Christ: at the 8. verse, I account all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but DUNG that I may win Christ. And then in the 19. verse, That I may know Him, and the power of his Resurrection, and the fellowship of His Sufferings being made conformable unto his Death. Paul desired to be so conformable to the very Death of Christ, that he accounted all things in the world but as dung and dross in comparison of that; Paul had the death of Christ before his eyes, and meditated much on the death of Christ, and that meditation had a great impression upon his spirit, that made him account all these things as dross, as dogs meat in comparison, and that he might have fellowship with the death of Christ, Perhaps some of you may think of the glory of Christ in Heaven, and that may for the present make you less worldly; but let me entreat you to meditate on the death of Christ, and know that there is an excellency in Conformity even to the death of Christ, such an Excellency that may take off your hearts from the things of the world. It's said of the King of France, that he asking one once about an Eclipse, saith he, I have so much business in the earth, that I take little notice of the things of Heaven.