O consider what you are, and how it is with you, how you come here! are you Christ’s; are you sincerely his? are you resolvedly his?
Are you crucified with Christ? Is the world crucified to you, and you unto the world? is the old man slain, and all your earthly members? feel every limb of the old man, if there be not life still found in them; feel the heart of the old man, is there not self-will, self-love, and the love of this present world yet alive? feel the head of the old man, is not pride and self-conceit alive? what plottings and contrivances, what great designs are there carrying on for the flesh and the world? feel the gall and the spleen of him, are not bitterness and wrath, envy and malice yet alive? observe the eyes, and ears, and the tongue, and the habit, and the way; doth not the old man live in all these? are not the eyes pleased with beholding vanity, the ears itching after fleshly fooleries? Is not the sound of him upon the tongue, the shew of him in the countenance, the habit and the whole way of life? feel the pulses of the old man, his breathings and pantings, is it not after earth still?
Richard Alleine. The World Conquered.
