PtpontheEpiftleof }AM lis. ·· fins into Gods prefmce: this is to .dare him to his face.· The ·Jews are chidden fO'r praying 'With thei? hands ful/ of6/ood, Jfai• . 1. 15. They came boldly, before they had been humbled fer their oppreffion: If her Father had Jfit in her face, fhou!d foe · notbeafoamedfevendttyr.? Num!J.u. 14. After great Rebel– lions there lbould be a folemn lmmbling and purging : \iYhat can men th~tt come in their fins expe .'l: horn God? Their flt:ite confureth tfuir worfhip i God \\{ill haw r othing to do with them; and he marvelleth they fhould have any rhing to do with him : He hath nothing to do With them·; Job 8. 20, Be will mt I:Jelp the evil d:ers; in ~ he Original, He Will not tak.,: the Wick!d by the hand: And he wondererh you iliould have any thing to do wich him ; IFhat haft thou to do to tak! my Words imo thy mouth f Pfa, 5o 16. . 177 ' 3• F: om the word [Lttying afile J ~9~p~oJ' Put it off as a O!Jfer~'• )• , .rotten and filth¥ garmtnt: Sin. mufl he left with an utter dete~a.- _ tion; Jjai. 30. 21. Thou /b~tlt cafl them away u a menflruota cloth; ·thou jbalt fays Get ye he-nce: · Sin is often expreffed by ttAbomination; ~cis fo to God, it fhould be fo to1nen: Faint reliflance argueth fotne inclinatiQn of the minde to it: Here affea-ions thould be drawn out to their he.ight ; Grief iliould become Contrition, Anger ibould be height':ned into Rage and . Indignation, and Shame lhould be turned into Confojion; ·no di{pleafure can be !hong and keen enough for fin. · . 4. From that [All J We muft not lay afide (tn in part oitely, O!?firv. 4• hut ~tll fin: So in Peter, the particle is univerfal, 'lt'~~av ~talf.!cU, I Pet. ~. r. C!Ait malice: and David faith, I hate e.vcry falfe • Arift Rhet · Way, 'Pfa. I 19. True Hatred is"' ~S' T~ -#11, to the whole l<inde: in Paj. ot. • ·Jf?hen We hate fin 114 fin, We ~ate allfin: fhe heart is mqfl fincere ·~hen the hatred is general a The lea(l: fin is dangerous, and in us o~n namrepea~·~y and delhutlive. C£far \Vu ftabbcd With !Jodk.f:ns. We read of .fome chat have been devoured of Wilde lm:t{fs, Lions and Bears '; out of others th:~t have been eaten up of vermine, mice, or lice. Pope ry<fdrian was 'choked witha elnat: The leafr fins may undg you: You know what Chrift fpeaketh of a little Le.avm ; Do Qot neglect the lea(l: fins~ ot· ex– cufe your felves in any Rimmon; Carry out yo1:1r felves againA: all known fins, and pray as he, Job 34· 3l· Th~tt Which 1 fee not,.teach thou me;: . if I hN:ve done iniq,eit], ['Will do[ono more. · . A a' - ) •From
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