7he Mountain of fat things difcovered. ride and mindofCbrif , conforniingfiriily to t he higheff and perfekejt formes and fcllowfhips ; and refiing in thin, they geed but upon rusks and vanity, and delude their poor fouls ; as the Prodigal!, he wouldfain have filled his telly with the husks, but no mangave unto him : none of all thefe things Luk. 15. can fatisfie; they will not deliver, nor keepoff the wrath of 16. God ; they will prove no covering, no íhelter at all, but the wrath ofGod will breakin upon them, and make them appear- wretched and miferable, tile, nakedand abominable. And that foule that is brought to this , to be fiript of all its garments, and made naked, and loft, and undone, (as to it telfe and all things of man ;) this is the happy Soul, theblef- fed Soul.. The other, all others put their trufl in the arm of fieJh, and aredeparted from the fountain of life, from the li- jer.2. 13. wing God, and therefore are not, nor cannot beblafíed, but are thefe that are turfed. Therefore we would that ye fhould take fpecial notice of thefe two things : Fiat, what this Curfed difpofition in Fre man is,what the Vail is wherewith he fo deludes &deceives theofe twr things. himfelf.and Secondly, how this Vail is removed: Firft what Jam.3. I5. it is ; It is that earthly, fenfual, and deviliji wifdome in the I. What hearts ofthe Sons ofmen,perfwading them to be that which thevail is. they are not : that they are holy, and juft, andgood : that they Gen. 3.6. havegoodneft, andholineffe, and wifdom, and power, &c. and if they improve thefe (fay they , as they may,) they may bring themfelves into a happy and a fafe condition,and con- clude that they canforfakefin, and they can be righteous and holy : this is that devilijbwifdome that the Devil infufed intoAdam in his fall : this was and is his eating the forbidden fruit : When God had created him dependant upon him- felfefor all his power, wifdome, goodne/f, holind ?, he fell from this condition, to have a dependance upon himfelf and on the creaturely being, on his own wifdome andholinefhe, &c. to have apower in himfelfe : and thus he departed from the fountain ofallgood, to leek a happinefs in himfelfe in his own nothingnefs ; and thus he became loft, curled and miferable This is THE V AILE, TheCovering, the deceit that is up- on all flesh, the Valle of the Covering of all Nations. And E it
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