Fifth Day. Of renouncing the world

L " Love not the world;, iicitlier the things that are in the world. ' 1 JoJin ii. 15. How comprehensive are these words I The world is that blind and depraved multitude which Jesus Christ condemns in his gospel, and for which he refused to pray at his death. The world, in one word, is all those who love tliemselves, or tlie creatures, without regard to God. We are then ihat world ourselves, as long as we so love ourselves, and seek that in t]ie creatures which can be found only in God. Happy that apostle, ' ta wliom tlie world was craciiied, and he crociiied to the world." Gal, vi.4.

II. What a happiness is it to be convinced, hou' truly contemptible the world is ■ He, that

Siath Day. 33 pavfs with the world for God, parts but with a trifle; arid they are lamentably weak, who think they have done some great matter in forsaking it. Every christian has already renounced it in his baptism; those who live in the strictest retirement, only keep to that engagement with more precaution than others. To seek the haven, is to fly the storm.