The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

5. Not unlike to this is the Pharisees mortification,¹ in which they are not crucified with CHRIST, but alive and vigorously strong to self-righteousness, to merits, to dead works.

5. Not unlike to this is the Pharisees mortification,¹ in which they are not crucified with CHRIST, but alive and vigorously strong to self-righteousnesse, to merits, to dead works.

1. 15. Pharisaical mortification.5. Pharisa•cal mortification.

6. There is a civill or moral mortification which hath diverse branches.¹ As 1. Seneca teacheth that nature is satisfied with water for drink, and a •urse for a house, yet he was a covetous man himself. And shall Horatius Cocles be a mortified man, because he defended the Romans against the three Curiatii alone? Though the bloody Gallant killed his own sister? And was the state mortified who pardoned him that bloody fact, for his gallant service? And Decius father and son who suffered so much for their Country, and loved it more then their own blood? And must Africanus Major, and Cato, who suffered for the liberty of the public, and Diogenes, who lived on herbs, be mortified men to the world? But what avails it to be dead to the bulk of a bit body of clay, and yet be alive to vain glory? 2. There is an occasional deadness rising from the sight of a father, a brother, a friend dead, not from the death of Christ. An unbeliever dies with this word, I would not live for all the world, and, we are like water spilt on the ground. The house is burnt, all spoiled, treasures, and the stock, by land and sea-robbers, are plucked away; and riches have wings. Hence, mortification transient for a time: but lusts fallen in a sown, are not dead, they rise again and live. 3. There is another transient mortification, as D. Preston observes, when the conscience is affrighted with Judgement,