CIRPoo? Mano farad') 'Boa. : c9 tenus cenfure of God. If you can but forgive God for making you a Man, you may perceive that it is you that damn your felf, and then quarrel with God for it. Is it not Man himfelf that Loveth the World and flejhly pleafure more than God ? That committed' all the fin that is committed ? That (x) turneth away his heart, his love, his delight, his thoughts from God and from all that is Heavenly and Holy ? Are not your lulls your own, and your pallïons your own ? Is it not your felf that make your felf ungodly, and contrary to the Holy nature of God and Heaven? Andyour felt who refift änd refute the fpirit and grace ofGod ? Do you know how much of Hell is in fin it fell, andof your otvn making as well as of your own deferving ? To be faved is to knowGod and Love bim, and delightfullyferve him : This in perfet`}ion is Ilea- ven. Anddoth God deny you this when you truly delre it ? Or do you not (y) deny it to your felf ? Is it not you, that Delight not in God and his fervice ? And that rather choose your flefhly pleafure ? And is it not you then that put your fell out of Heaven ? Heaven is a ftate of perfec`f Holinefs : And you will not have Holinefs, and yet you fay you would have Heaven. God fetteth before you a feaft of holy joys ., And your appetite is againit it : you loath it : You re- fufe it : No intreatv will perfwade you to talle it : You deride it 'as precifenefs. And when you have done, you blame God becaufe you have it nor. If you would have a Mahomerane Heaven of Leathery, and Wine, and Sports : A Heaven of Cards, and Dice, (x) fob 28.28. Prov.i 3.14. er 14.27. 6--.15.24. u) yob bz.zq..c»22.z7. and
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