try, pride, ambition, and haughtiness therein. From _within_
it would die as to all the lusts and appetites of the flesh, and would
get a mind and will wholly new for its government and management; being
now made subject to the Spirit, which would continually be directed to
God. And thus thy very body is become the temple of God and of his
Spirit, in imitation of thy Lord's Body.

DISCIPLE

But the World would hate it and despise it for so doing, seeing it must
hereby contradict the World, and must live and act quite otherwise than
the World doth. This is most certain. And how can this be taken?

MASTER

It would not take that as any harm done to it, but would rather rejoice
that it is become worthy to be like unto the image of our Lord Jesus
Christ, being transformed from that of the World. And it would be most
willing to bear that cross after our Lord, merely that our Lord might
bestow upon it the influence of his sweet and precious love.

DISCIPLE

I do not doubt but in some this may be even so. Nevertheless, for my own
part, I am in a strait between two, not feeling yet enough of that
blessed influence upon me. Oh how willingly should my body bear _that_,
could _this_ be safely depended upon by me! Wherefore pardon me, loving
Sir, in this one thing, if my impatience doth still further demand,
"What would become of it, if the anger of God from within, and the
wicked World also from without, should at once assault it, as the same
really happened to our Lord Christ?"

MASTER

Be that unto it, even as unto our Lord Christ, when he was reproached,
reviled and crucified by the World, and when the anger of God so
fiercely assaulted him for our sake. Now what did he under this most
terrible assault both from without and within? Why; he commended his
soul into the hands of his Father, and so departed from the anguish of
this World into the eternal joy. Do thou likewise, and his death shall
be thy life.

DISCIPLE

Be it unto me as unto the Lord Christ, and unto my body as unto his,
which into his hands I have commended, and for the sake of his name do
offer up, according to his revealed Will. Nevertheless I am desirous to
know what would become of my body in its pressing forth from the anguish
of this miserable World into the power of the Heavenly Kingdom.

MASTER

It would get forth from the reproach and contradiction of the World by a
conformity to the passion of Jesus Christ; and from the sorrows and
pains