A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

1. They are unsuitable to our Privileges, and to our Interest in the Death of Christ; Rom. 6.2. How shall we that are dead to Sin, live any longer therein? He argues not ab impossibili, but ab incongruo; it is an unfit thing for such to live in Sin. We disparage the Death of Christ, when we are not the better but the worse for it; Hath he redeemed us from Sin, that we might yet serve it? Did he humble himself for our sakes, that we should be proud? Did he put such Contempt on the World, that we should loosen the Reins to worldly Lusts? Was he at all this Pains to make us worse? You hereby put a Contumely and Reproach upon Christ's Death, and disparage his Purchase.

2. It is contrary to the Example of his Life. We do not worship the God of this World, nor Mammon, but Christ: Christ by his own choice hath put a Disgrace on the World; he chose a mean Estate, not out of Necessity, but Design: He came not in worldly Pomp; Matth. 8.20. The Foxes have Holes, and the Birds of the Air have Nests, but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his Head. John 18.36. My Kingdom is not of this World. Who is more able to judg what is best, We, or Christ? John 17.14. They are not of the World, even as I am not of the World. Who is fitter to choose, or wiser to choose, Christ or We? Who is in an Error, Christ or We? If there was so much in the World as we fancy, Christ was in an Error to despise it.

2. It is contrary to the Example of his Life. We do not worship the God of this World, nor Mammon, but Christ: Christ by his own choice hath put a Disgrace on the World; he chose a mean Estate, not out of Necessity, but Design: He came not in worldly Pomp; Matth. 8.20