Serm. z r. How may we get rid of Spiritruall Slotb ? God, z Chron. 36. 16. but they mocked the meffengers of God : to mock the meffengers of God is by reflection to mock the God of thofe meffengers. Cum m ultis aliis. 3. Interpertatively, when men do fuck maions as plainly evidence a mockage of God. I have read of a fellow in want that earneftly in- treated Mercury to fend him force relief, promifing him that what- ever he found he would facrifice half to him, he found nuts, he eat the Kernels and offered the fhels to Mercury, which he relented as an high affront ; ae`fivity in duty is the Kernel, !loth is the fhell, which we of- fering to God in fervice is interpreted a high and horrid mocking. .Augnf ue C4(ar being invited to one of his fubjeds houfer, and being Nefciebam me flothtully and negligently entertained took it as a derifion. Duty istibi tam faire an inviting God to our houfe,if we entertain him fluggifhly and care- famitiarem. idly he will call you to an account for your impudent familiarity with Erafm. Adag. him, and make you hold up your hand at his bar for being guilty of taking his name in vain. Exod. 20.7. X, Confider how active Chri[t was in doing us fervice, he did omnem movere lapidem ; He was fo enlarged about the thoughts of doing the work, that he was lb-aimed until -he was about it, Lull. i z.5o. I have a baptifm to be baptized with,&how am 1 flreitned until it be accompli(hed; i.e. I have a death of the Crofs to fuffer for Mans Redemption , and I am preffed with an Antiperiftaf s until I have finifhed it : Or elfe, as Grotia4 renders it, I am with child of my Pafhon , and how do I long for my delivery. I am in pain until I am in pain, much like fume wo.. men , who breed their children with more pain than they do bring them forth. When that day of his travel came, it was the day of his tri- umph, Col.z. i 5.Triumphing over them in it. The Athenian Codrus be- Plutarch. lug informed by the Oracle That the People, whole King fhould be (lain in the Battei, fhould be Conquerors, difrobed himfelf, went into the Enemies Q arters in the habit of a poor man,with a burden on his back, that he might {lea( a death to make his People Conquerours: Chrihl difrobed himfelf of the Garments of Glory, affumed the form of a fervant, endured contradictions of (inners, held his peace when falfely charged, that he might Real a death for his People, that fo they might be more than Cnnquerors,Heb. i 2.2. Looking unto 7efass the Au- thor and f nifZer of our faith, who for the joy that wag [et before him, endu- red the crofs, dernifing the flume. Shall Chrifl give you fuch a Copy of a6tivity,and will you blot and blur it with (loth and fluggifhnefs? fhall Chrill go fwiftly to death ? and we go fluggifhly to duty. xo. Beg the quickning Spi rit,this is ioftar omnium,none li ait,as Da* TGt vid 507
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