Creature_?

MASTER

The body would by this means be put into the imitation of our Lord Jesus
Christ and of his body. It would stand in the communion of that most
blessed Body, which is the true temple of the Deity, and in the
participation of all its gracious effects, virtues, and influences. It
would live in the Creature, not of choice, but only as it is made
subject to vanity, and in the World, as it is placed therein by the
ordination of the Creator, for its cultivation and higher advancement,
and as groaning to be delivered out of it in God's time and manner, for
its perfection and resuscitation in eternal liberty and glory, like unto
the glorified body of our Lord and his risen Saints.

DISCIPLE

But the body, being in its present constitution, so made subject to
vanity, and living in a vain image and creaturely shadows according to
the life of the undergraduated creatures or brutes, whose breath goeth
downward to the earth; I am still very much afraid thereof, lest it
should continue to depress the mind which is lifted up to God, by
hanging as a dead weight thereto; and go on to abuse and perplex the
same, as formerly, with dreams and trifles, by letting in the objects
from without, in order to draw me down into the World and the hurry
thereof; whereas I would fain maintain by conversation in Heaven even
while I am living in the World. What, therefore, must I do with this
body, that I may be able to keep up so desirable a conversation, and not
to be under subjection to it any longer?

MASTER

There is no other way for thee that I know but to present the body
whereof thou complainest (which is the beast to be sacrificed) _a living
sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God_. And this shall be thy rational
service whereby this thy body will be put, as thou desirest, into the
imitation of Jesus Christ, who said his Kingdom was not of this World.
Be not thou then _conformed_ to it, but be _transformed_ by the renewing
of thy mind; which renewed mind is to have dominion over the body, that
so thou mayest prove, both in body and mind, what is the perfect Will of
God, and accordingly perform the same with and by his grace operating
in thee. Whereupon the body, or the _animal life_ would, being thus
offered up, begin to die, both from without and from within. From
_without_, that is, from the vanity and evil customs and fashions of the
World; it would be an utter change to all the parts thereof, and to all
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