j 16 Wherein are sue endangered by things lawfull ? Sean. lz end, 1 Car. io. 3 r. viz, the glory of God and alto to the circurn-i fiances, this there be but few that find it : But the broad way, which is without bounds and limits , this is the common road which mofl; walk in. Thus far, but no further, faith God ; the will of God is the boundary of the narrow way but luft knoweth no bounds, and will not be prefcribed to. The very Heathens looked at their common aftions as under bounds; they had their 'Avi 6 Lm' , fufine & A¢fl but ticr avEK;l ior. Gc lli. N?51es, A 1.ß.c.19. Anton. Pig.!..¢. §. 3. the dif- ficulty lies in obferving the juft limits in the ufe of lawfull things; and therefore one laid well, Licitis perimys omnes, &c. ruine ufually arifeth from the ufe of lawfull things, there being molt danger where it is leali fufped4ed. In all our comforts there is a forbidden fruit, which feemeth fair, and tafteth Tweet, but which muff not be touched. The Obfervations may be there : I. That all our anions natstrall,, ireeating, &c. and civill, i, buying and fellin?, &c. come under a rule.( his is implyed, elfe the Lord would not have brought chofe great: judgments on than barely for their eating, CErc. had they not in thofe imploymenrs tran:greffed a rule. 2. Such are ufually the » ifcarriages of men in the ufe of lawfull things , that they are the procuring can (es of the dreadful! judg- ments. For we fee that the Lord makes mention of theft very things lawful in thenafelves, as the caufes of the floud on the world , and fir; on Sod9me. 3. The Lord puts great weight and ft refs on theft very things which we take but little or no notice of. The old world and Sudon.e , little thought they Ihould come to fo fevere a reckoning for their sating and drinking, &c. To bring things to an iffue as to the cafe concerning our danger of fin and mitcarriage in lawfull things., I (hall 1. inquire When lawfull things become fin to ssa. 2. How we 'ray judge ofour hearts andfelvos, and difcern their mifcarriage and fin in the psrfsting., injv ?ment and sfe of lawful things? 3. What are the fins that attend the immoderate and inordinate ufe of lawfull things As to the brit I anfwer, When lawfull comforts which are given srs fir kelps, become kindcrances in our way to Heaven, then they be- come fin to rip. When we 1.y our abulìve cleaving to the creature, by our, inordinateaffetlion to it, by our exorbitant diford_tly purfuing of it, do abufe our helps, they become hinderances to us , and as it Was faid of Gideon; Ephod, jssdg. 8.27. He node an Ephod, which when
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