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A Fifth is, much Mortification, That we be crucified to the World, to our self, and to our sinful lusts; I am Crucified (saith Paul, Gal. 2.) with Christ, yet I live, so Chap. 6. He tells us that he was crucified to the world, and the World to him: And he exhorts Christians, Col. 3.5. To Mortify their members which are upon the Earth: Fornication, Uncleanness, Inordinate Affection, Covetousness, &c. A Sixth is, Much Patience, Meekness, Forbearance, Long-suffering; wherein our Lord hath given and left himself for a non such Pattern: Matth. 11.29 Learn (saith He) of me for I am meek and lowly in heart So, 1 Pet. 2.21, 22. And hence, Meekness, Patience and forbearance are so much and so frequently called for in the Gospel, and on Gospel grounds, as great duties becoming the Gospel, or as special pieces of a Gospel-conversation. The Seventh, Is, a heavenliness in our conversation, a denyedness, a holy abstractedness from earthly things, and living in Heaven, while on earth, and a living more where we love, then where we live: If ye be risen with Christ, (saith the Apostle. Col. 3.1.) Set your affections on things above; not on things on the earth; Which is also called for, Philip. 3.20. By his own example proposed for our Pattern, our Conversation, (saith he) is in Heaven, whence we look for the Saviour; To be much in our affections set on the things that are on the Earth, to be earthly minded is unbecoming the Gospel. An• Eighth is, a great eye on Eternity, an eye, whose looks are not bounded within time; ⟨p. 90⟩but pierce through time, and all the Fogs, Mists, and Clouds that are in it: It's much unbecoming the Gospel to have our hope much; not to say, only, in this life, or to be much taken up about the driving of Earthly designs and projects: but it's a good qualification of a Gospel conversation, to have an eye before us on Eternal life,