Spiritual Pérfidion. 323 his being furprizi'd by a ftrong Tempta- tion ? So foolifh wars I, and fo like a beaft befOre thee. The Prophet traiab, after his vifion of GM upon a high Throne, and all the Sanaities of Heaven about him in a polture of Reverence , how does he break forth in perplexity ! WO is me, for I am a Man of unclean Lips, and dwell with a people of unclean Lips ; for mine Eyes have Peen the Xing, the Lord of Hogs. St. Paul, tho' the molt exaa obferver and example of the Duty of Chriftians , who never fhed a Tear for his Sufferinsgs how paffionately does he complain of the reliques of Sin ? O wretched Man that I am, who fhall deliver me from this body of death ? A fcratch in a piece of Canvas is hardly difcovered ; but if a Pi&ure be drawn iipou it, 'tis very vifible. When the Image of God is drawn in the Soul, the leaft Sins are obfer But with what allays does theApoftle fpeak of the fierce Zeal of the yews,, againft the Doarine of the Gofpel, and the profeffors of it ? I bear them record, kcal. 9. theyhave a 7,*eal for God, but not accord- ing to knowledge. He diftinguifhes be tween the fincerity of their Zeal, and the error of it in the rniflaken Objea. But he detefts his own perfècuting the Church, (though capable of the fame Y 2 allaysl)
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