Hearts Mortified

Labour to get your hearts mortified to the world, dead to the world. Paul saith, "I die daily." We should die daily to the world: we are baptized into the death of Christ— that is to signify that we have taken such a profession as to profess to be even as dead men to the world. Now there are no crosses that fall out in the world that doth trouble those that are dead; and, if our hearts were dead to the world, we should not be much troubled with the changes of the world, or the tossing about of worldly things. Let afflictions and trouble find thee with a mortified heart to the world, and they will not break thy bones. The bones of those that are broken by crosses and afflictions are those that are alive to the world. When the soldiers found Christ dead, they brake not His bones, but they broke the legs of one that was crucified with Him and of the other.— Burroughs