,Confounded in their Language. and fchifine, and herefie, let that be rooted up : and he will make the crooked things firait , and he will undertake to make men religious and to reform their lives : Whats all this, but tobewife inhis own wifedome, and confident in his own strength, andholy in his own holine¡fe, and that he alone is judge in the things of God. What greater blafphemy can there be ? In ftead of being firong in God and in the power of his might, they are mighty and Strong in man and in themfelves.Nowall theft works alto the Lord will ruin and defiroy ; All thisfirongbuilding he will make Babel, CO NFVS ION; all this Language will the Lord confound,fcatter and defiroy. Whatever it be , which is of manor by man erected (though pretending a fervice and a worfhipofGod) either found out and invented by hinl:- felfe, or elfe pretending a prefcribed rule in the word for it, and this done by the power and wifedome of man, it is noother but aBabel, and (hall be nude a City of Cónfutfion. And this the Lordwill certainly doe and bring to paffe in man 5 either that bothhe and his works, his wifdom, righte- .oufneffe, power, &c. may be delroyed and confounded to- gether,that both himfelfand all his works may beburnt up together,or elfe that his workjhall be burnt,and yet he may be Paved, yetfö as byfire; for th. it fire of the Lord (bail try every mans wor(ofwhat fort it is ; if the Lord in mercy defcend andcome down among the formes of men, to burn up all their works, their wif tome , theirfirength, and all things of this nature, to ¡trip man ofall his abilities and righteoufieß, and make him nothing in himfelfe, And abominable in his ownfight, this defiruction of the fleth is that be may be delivered fromdeath and wrath, and that his fpi°it may be faved in the day of the Lard, and that he may' bring him to refi, peace, wifdom, righteoufneß and glary in that alone and 4 ifufcrent Saviour the Lord Jefüs Chriff , in whom alone are all thefe : but in the creature nothing but trouble, confufon, death, finne, hell , and condemnation, in which All the fonnes of men are concluded, and all their beft workes ; and Chrilt alone is ordained of the Father to be our firength, wifdom, righteoufneß, re- f demption, t. Cor. 13. Ezek. 20. 43 i Cor. 5. < cCor.i 30.
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