Conformed to the world
To resemble, to be conformed to the world is a third thing we are to understand by serving mammon: to have not only designs but desires, tempers, affections suitable to those of the world, to be of an earthly, sensual mind, chained down to the things of earth, to be self-willed, inordinate lovers of ourselves, to think highly of our own attainments, to desire and delight in the praise of men, to fear, shun, and abhor reproach, to be impatient of reproof, easy to be provoked, and swift to return evil for evil.
1771 text
10. To resemble, to be conformed to the world, is a third thing we are to understand by serving mammon: to have not only designs, but desires, tempers, affections suitable to those of the world: to be of an earthly, sensual mind, chained down to the things of earth: to be self-willed, inordinate lovers of ourselves: to think highly of our own attainments; to desire and delight in the praise of men: to fear, shun, and abhor reproach: to be impatient of reproof, easy to be provoked, and swift to return evil for evil.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 29 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:24-34.
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