The Nature of Cont•erfion. 29: as MJ.ry, in weeping over her fins,Luk. 7· 38.. in 9~- - holding God in his vvrorks:~ Pfal. 8. 3· tn readtng hts word, 4Ci. 8. 30 in looking~~ and do:'lr! fo~ ob- , "je~s of n1.!rcy, and opportun1ttes for h1~ iervtce. - 1 The ear that was once open . to S~tan s cal~, and that ,(like a vitiated palate) . ~1d r~hlli nothtng ~o inucn·asfilthy, as, at leait, frotny talk') an~ the fools· laughter, is nowbored to the door ofChnfts houre, and open to his difcipline: Ir faithJ Spea~, Lord, f(}r thy fervant beareth: It cries with hitn, Veniat verbum J?orrzini, and waits for his \vord as t_he rain, and re– hlbeth then1 n1ore than the appotnted food, Jab 23. 12 than the honey, and the honey-co:onb, Pjttl. 19. ro. The heaJ, that was the fhop of worldlydefigns, is now filled with other rnatters, and fet OI..1 the ftu– dy of God's will, Pfal. 1. 2 . and 1 I 9. 97. and the. rnan beats his head, -not fo much about hisgain, but about his duty. The thoughts and cares that now fill his head are principally, ho\¥ he maypleafe God, .and fly fin . . · His heart, that was a fl:y of filthy lufts, is now· become an altar of incenfe, wbere thefire of divine. ·love is ever kept in, and whence the daily facrifice of prayer and praifes, and fweet incen[e of holy· defires, ejaculations, and a.nhelations are conti· nually afcending, P[al. Io8. 1. and 119- 2o. · and 139 I7,I8. , The Inouth is become awell of life, his tongue as choice fi.lver . and his lips feed many: Nov; the fa.Jt of grace hath feafoned his fpeech, and eat out the corruption, Cot. 4· 6. · and cleanfed the n1outh fr~r:n his filthy c~ nrn~nication, ~a.ttery, boafiing, rathng,. lymg, rweanng, ·back-b1t1ng, that once cam~ hke the flafhes proceeding from the ·hell that·, \\Zas_tn the heart, !James 3. 6, 7· The tbroat, that was..once an open fe2ulcht·e, Rom. 3· r 3· now,fends· C 3 forth
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