Alleine - Houston-Packer Collection BX5201 .A42 1664 pt.2

(117) .reverence holinefs, by letting the1~· fee it before their eyes. ( · . Holinefs hath ruch a glory in it, that it will comn1and refpeet and reverence,wh~n it is dearly fet>n. Let your paths be rure; as G9d h-ath .feparatedyou, 't:o_fcparate you·r ftlve(• from rhe lu'fi~ of tllen,to the Lawof your God. Krepyou_..- fe! ves upright in the -JigfJt of G?d: ktep y~ur fel_ves unfpotred of the warld ,; if thty wtll b~ fpott1ng of yot;; let it be only with your beautie fpots~ your vV ifdom> Tntth,Holin'efs, Mercy, Meel\nefs~ Patien_ce; . the excellenc'ic~, ana Venues of your God app-earing upon you.Let this, that you are too pure, too precifc, too teud~r, too watchful, too fearful of fin, too zealoas agau1fi fin, be all they have to charge you with. . - Keep thee fron1 tbine own iniquities;fay not fo mnch as thi s, I ammy beloveds,and my belawd mujt be mine. Kick out thy Dal!fahs.Thou nudl part with thy dar– ltng, or thy God; Let the re be no fecrec league, let there be ,no peace betwixt thy Soul and an·y iniqui- - ty,_ ; to which thou n1ayfi either fi,~al out,~o dt:llight thee, or turn in to hide thee;le_t no ~niquity be thy_ leiftrre or protetlion ; if wh~n thouart pur[ued by ~ a perfecuter, any fin,as Jael to Sifera_,fhould call to thee, tur11 in hither, and thou ntayfi efcape,remen1• .ber the nail and the han1mer; let no in!quit'te find a corner in three to lodge inquiet,that thoumayjf not think to find a corner wicQ. it,where-thou majjt \odg in fafety; fay to all thy finful delights, and _finful hopes, gat you gone, l will neither love you, nor ~ruityou; however thy fin n1ay plea[~ thee~ whate– ver it' may pro~ife thee, be fut e thou wilt find it ,~ fling in thy Soul,anda itain Ul)~~ thy glory. ' I 3. r I K~ep - .

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