Spiritual Per feElion: are his flrosg City, and as an high Wall, in his imagination. He will truff God no farther than according to vifible fup- plies and means : He takes not God for his ftrength, but trufis in the abundance of his Riches. His Heart is pofl'effed and polluted with the loveof the World, and God is excluded : Therefore we are commanded, not to love the VVorld, nor the things of it : If any Man love the VVorld, the love of the Father is not ira him. He is provok'd to Jealoufie, the moll revere and fenfible Attribute, by the coidnefs of Mens Love. From hence it appears how this cotnprehenfìve Sin is injurious to God. The Pfalmiflé tells us, that the Covetous are not only the objects of God's Anger, but abhorrence Thus he brands them, The covetous whom the Lord abhors. The words are of the molt heavy signification. If his Loving- kindnefs be better than Life, his Hatred is worfe than Death. 'Tis the root of all Evil, in Ferfons of all conditions , civil and facred. This bribes thole that are in the Seat of Judg- ment, to clear the guilty ; and which is a bolder Crime, to condemn the inno- cent. Of this there is recorded a cruel andbloody Inflance, in the death of Nam both, occafioned by Ahab's Covetoufnefs. This corrupts be Preachers of theWord, 4-3
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