The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

First. He did it most eminently and signally in the Life, Death, and Cross of Christ. What can be seen or found in this World, after the Son of God hath spent his Life in it, not having where to lay his Head; and after he went out of it on the Cross. Had there bin ought of real worth in things here below; certainly he had enjoyed, if not Crowns and Empires which where all in his Power, yet such Goods and Possessions as men of sober reasonings, and moderate affections do esteem a competency. But things were quite otherwise disposed, To manifest that there is nothing of value, or use in these things, but only to support nature unto the performance of service unto God, wherein they are serviceable unto eternity: He never attained, he never enjoyed more then daily supplies of Bread out of the Stores of Providence, and which alone he hath Instructed us to Pray for, Math. 8.20. In his Cross the World proclaimed all its good qualities and all is Powers, and hath given unto them that believe, its naked Face to view and contemplate. Nor is it now one jot more comely, than it was when it had gotten Christ on the Cross. Hence is that inference and Conclusion of the Apostle; Gal. 6.14. But God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, whereby the World is Crucified unto me, and I unto the World. Since I have believed, since I have had a Sense of the Power and Virtue of the Cross of Christ, I have done with all things in this World; it is a dead thing unto me, nor have I any affection for it. This is that which made the difference between the Promises of the Old Covenant and the New. For they were many of them about temporal things, the good things of this World, and this Life. Those of the New, are mostly of things Spiritual and Eternal. God would not call off the Church wholly from a regard unto these things, ⟨p. 183⟩until he had given a Demonstration of their Emptiness, Vanity, and Insufficiency in the Cross of Christ. 2 Cor. 4.16, 17, 18.

First. He did it most eminently and signally in the Life, Death, and Cross of Christ. What can be seen or found in this World, after the Son of God hath spent his Life in it, not having where to lay his Head; and after he went out of it on the Cross. Had there bin ought of real worth in things here below; certainly he had enjoyed, if not Crowns and Empires which where all in his Power, yet such Goods and Posessions as men of sober reasonings, and moderate affeons do esteem a competency. But things were quite otherwise disposed, To manifest that there is nothing of value, or use in these things, but only to support nature unto the performance of service unto God, wherein they are serviceable unto eternity: He never attained, he never enjoyed more then dayly supplies of Bread out of the Stores of Providence, and which alone he hath Instructed us to Pray for,