of God, but thoſe that be of Mm.) The Werd is, 2£51 Gs, and. it may be, were better cranflaced,, To thinkes rn; of, or, Tr: unaeri andest not , the thirgs that be of Grd; that is, rhe Counteis or G2d 1n this Marrer, as to the Redemniion of Mankind: Thou coniicurcit me only as thy Maſter, and ctliy Friend, and would it have no harm come to me; then doft nor mind, nor chink of me as the Saviour of the Warld, or the Ryfoemer of Murbing wiiet cannor be redeemed otherwiſe than by my Beach, Thou by ty :ncemperate Affettion ro me , wouldeſt hinder the R-d2;pti-5, of Mankind ;, this is nor, in this thing, to mind , e:ink on. «7 favour che things of God , bur to titer thy felt to be teduccd by thy Carnal Affettion. Ir is a miſtaken Rindne:s ro our Friends, to dilſuade rhem, for our Perfonal Advantage, to do winar _ a do in conſiſtency with their Obedience to che Wii! of God.
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man will come after me, let him deny him{lt, and 3” take up his croſs and follow me.
Mark hath the fame, chap. 8: 34. and Lk. g. 23. only 1b {aich, When he had called the People to him, with bis Dijcibles. Luke taich, He ſaid to them all ; Be tpake it to his Di'ciples, but ng: }rivately, bur before all the reſt cf rhe People, who at that time Wcre preſent. [If any Man will c:mme after me, that is, If any Man will be my Diſciple, fo ic is expounded by Luke, wp. 14. 25, 27, Which 15 a Text muci of the ſims urp.rc with this, only what Matthew here calleth a denying of himjerf, Lube callerh hating. The Diſciples of others, are call'd the #:rycrs if em. | Let him deny himſelf. | To deny our ſelves, is to per © ver Natural Affettions rowards the good Thin:s of this Lite, let chem_b2 Pleaſures, Profit, Ponours, Relations, Life, a
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ot the Crofs, with reſpett to Chriſt's C1, ca wiiich he tuffered, [ Ind follw mel in his taking up the C18, Be ſhall bur do as I hall do, tollowing my Example, Or elle tis may be Iook'd up2n as a third Term «t Chriſt's Diſcipicſhip, wiz. Yielding an Univerſal Obedience to ri:z Commandme:.cs of Chriſt, or living up, as near as wecan, to the Eximple of Chriſt, 1 Pet. 1. 15. This Dodrine cur Saviour preacheth ro them, upon occation of Peter's moving him to tpare lumfclf, by which he did bur in- dulge his own Carnal Affettion , withcur reſpe& ro the Will of God, as to what Chriſt was to ſuffer tcr the Redemprion of Mankind.
it: and whoſoever will loſe kis life for my fake. ſhall find it?
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26 For what is a man profred , it he {hall gain the whole world, and loſe his own ſoul? or * {hall a man give in exchange 1or his ſoul ?
Our Interpreters , by tranflaring che fame Word $91, in the Verſe, which they had tranflared Life , ver. 25. let us know, thar they underſtood it here, of that £fſential Part of Man. which we call rhe Soul : In which fente ic could not be underſtood in rhar Verſe ; for it 18 1mpoſfible, in tiiar ſenſe, ro [fe or Soul for Chri's ſake. Some think that it hach the ſame ſenſe here as in chat Verſe 3 and that our Saviour arguerh here, from tic leſs ro the greater; thus, Men will loſe any thing, rather than their Lives: Skin for Skin , and all that a Man hath , for his Li; And this 1s but reaſonable ; tor 1t a Man lofe his Lite, to ger che World , what will the World gotren do him good? Wir can be a proportional Exchange, or Compenſation to him for char? Now, it you value your Temporal Life ar thar rare, how much morc ought you co value your Eternal Ecing and Exiſtence ? Tr comech much to the fame; only che ſenſe is Plainer if we take ic as our Tranflarors have taken ir; fer orher- wife, part of che Argument 15 not expreſſed, bur [ett ro be un- derſtood, or ſupplied from the nexr Verſe ; ſo as the ſenſe is this ; beſides Bodies , which may be killed by Perlecurors , you carry abour with you Immorcal Souls of infinice more value; and befides a Temporal Life, of which you are in potleifion, there is an Eternal State which awaircech you : You are Creatures ordained ro an Eternal Exiſtence , eicher in Mitery or in Happi- nefs. Admir you conld, by pleafing your ſclves,denying Me, thitc- ing the Croſs, declining a Lite according eo my Precepts and Example, prolong your Temporal Lite ; yer what will you ger by ir , confidering char by it you muſt ſuffer loſs as ro your Ecernal Happy Exiſtence ; for I ſha!l then deny you betore my Father, and his Ange!s. Can any thing you can zer or fave in this World, be a proportionable Exchange for Ecerna! Happineſs.
of his Father, * with his angels; and then he thall 54. reward every man * according to his works.
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and whom Men vitifie and contemn under char Notion ; He is to be the Judge of the Quick, and of the Dezd, AQ. 10. 4 *,
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