the Clod if taken offthe Tabernacle. neße,his folly and.mifery, he beingnot able to beheld it, nor live in thefight thereoffor he is net able to behold the wrath ofGod, and Hell-fireflafhing in his face : thenhe bethinks himfelfe offorce Covering, force Shelter, TomeCloaths to co- ver his nahednej; he is not able to behold his own condi- tion : and he invents a thoufand wayes to fhelter himfelf: runs to this duty and that rule,and he will findout fomthing, he will do fomething to quench thefire in him that is kindled by the breath ofthe Lord. And is not man in this more mad, : Efa.3o33 and more vain, and moremifrable ?Forby all thefe things fiedoth but adde fuel/ to this fire ; for doth he think , till onefßronger then loimfèlfcome, ever to be delivered ? Alas, Luk. I I: thus are all the fops ofmen deluded ; but when Quill who 22. is the true Mediatour comes , when he Pets up his light in man , then he convinces him of his Emptineffe, of his Weakneffe, ofhis Nothingneffe, and that he cannot arife, nor live, without the loudandmighty voyce of thefon of God Jolt II. quicken him ; when this light and life comes upon him, 43' then though hebe naked in himfelf, yet he is not afhamed : but he ftanding in this condemnation, all fin, and darkneífe and condemnationvanifh before the glory of thefe heaven- ly things and come to nothing, and empty themfelves into their own nothingnefl, that fo the glory of Jefus Chrift may come in the room thereof, who is truth, and life, and fulne(9, and perfetiion, and all things. But while manwalks by the light of his ownfire, and in the Efa.so.ii fparks which he bath kindled, he is holy, and gocd,and pure, and excellent, and great in his own fight, and high in his own wifedome ; but when once hecomes to beguided by thefire and light of theTabernacle , then he is a Miferable, Empty, Bare, Eeggerly thing : nothing in himofWifdom, Power, Glory, Riches, Goodncffe, a meer naked, empty, andPimple thing, except he be made happy in the light of God, and in the unionwith Jefus Chrift; wife in thewifdom ofGod, and holy inth,. holineífe of God : Here, fayes the Apoftle, Ipermit not awoman tofpeak in the Church, here let a Cor, i4 her head be covered: that is, let not man fpeak any thing in 34. Ithe Church in the pretenceof theLord; of hir wifdom, of his 'bid. 1 M 2 good- 16"
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