Serrn, 2 t. How may we get rid of Spirituall Sloth not perform it as for your life and foul. You come to Peek and fee the face of God in the g'afs of ordinances, Pfd. 27.8. to have communi- Laenbunt pe- on with him, to fetch comfort from him ; to get force kiffes of him, tram, mel non Cant. I.3. to mortifie force lull, to increafe force grace,to firengthen do unt. d m. your affurance , to teflifie your duty, to exprefs your affec`fion, &c. now fpirituall (loth hinders you of all this; dull and drowfie eyes can- not fee God,heavy and flothlul hearts cannot receive thofe benefits and bleffrngs from God Sloth is a fluce -gate to the current of Gods T'otpor nonfinít grace and favour. upiter rained a fhower of gold into Danaer l.ip,but D` m. of e b¢ne- God wi'l never rain a fhower of grace joy and comfort into a flog -f` Bards heart. If you lofe the bleffed fight of God here in ordinances, you had lofe the beatifical fight of God hereafter in glory, 2 Cor.3.18. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glafs the glory of the Lord, are changed into the fame image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spi. rit of the Lord ; then have we the kernel of a duty (every thing elfe is but a thell ) when our employment is on Earth , and our enjoyment in Heaven ; when we have fo fought Gods Face that our face comes away fhining,and we have fo poured out our hearts to God,that God hath powred out his heart to us, that we returra home like Bees loaded with honey, tilled with the comforts of the Holy Ghofl. V I I. Confider the infinite and wonderful glory,greatnefs, majefly of him you appear before and approach unto in your duties. A God you are not able to conceive, nor Ito exprefs. See how the Scripture fliadows him out unto us (and indeed it is but a fhadow in comparifon of his fubflaoce) Ifa. 4 0. r 2. Who hath meafured the waters in the hol- low of his hand ? and meted out Heaven with the .s an, and comprehended the duff of the earth in a meafure, and weighed the mountains in fcales, and the hills in a ballante ? v.15. behold the nations are as a drop of the bucket, and are counted as the [mall duff of the ballance : behold he ta. k.eth up the Ides as a very little thing, v. 16. and Lebanon is not fufftci- entto burn, nor the beafis thereof fufficient for a burnt offering, v.17. all things before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him lets than no- thing and vanity. Ex pede Herculem. By this glorious defcription we ps/ie parti,i.. may gue Is (and that is all) at enough in God, to fcare us from coming patioee nobs to God in a dull and drowfie manner : the Heathens who worfhip'd veneranda the Sun for their god, durtl not offer up any thing but a flying horfe to funt, in compa- him in facrifice our God is more glorious, fwift feeing than ten rarione ejut g g memoranda non thoufand Suns, therefore we íhould not dare to offer up any thing but fnnt. Greg. a winged Cherubim, or fwift flying Eagle to him in fervice. Mor.!.i.c.a?< V III. Confider how induil;rious and indefatigable an adverfaty you 505
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