2 5 2 Sig POOq anofamitp Zook, and bufinefs ofthy Life : the healthand happinefs of thy foul. This is that ., iolinefs or Godlinefs which God doth fo much call for. T V. And by this it'iseafie to know, what a (k) frate ,offin, and ungodlinefs is. Even the want of all this Holinefs; and the fetting upof Carnal-SELE inf ead of G Q D. Whenmen are proudly Great, and Wife, and Good in their own eyes ; and would Difpofc ofthem- felves,andall their concernments; and would Rule them- f Ives and Pleafe themfelves, according to the fefhly Appetiteandfancy : And therefore Love mofr the Plea- firesand Profits and Honours of the world, as the pro- vthon to fatisfie the delires of the Flefh: and God 'hall beno further Loved, Obeyed, or Pleafed, than the Love ofFlefhly pleafure will give leave ; nor thall have any thing but what the Fleih can fpare. This i,s a wicked, A carnal, an ungodly frate ; though it break forth in various wayes of finning. V. By this, Experience it felf may tell you, that moll men ( (1) yea all, till Grace renew them) are in this ungodly miferable "late : (Thoughonly the Scri- pture tell us how this carne to pafs.) Though all are not f m ornicators, nor Drunkards, nor Extortioners, nor erfecutors, nor live not in the fame way of finning ; yet Se/fThnefs, and Pride, and Senfuality and the Loveof .vorldly. things, ignorance and ungodlinef s, are plainly become,the common corruption of the--Nature of man (k) Pfal.I4..> I. Heb. I2.I4,Rom.$. Ig, 13. 7oh, 3. 3,5,6. I foh.2,15,16.Rom.13. I4, is'. Rom.6.i6. Luke 18. 23.& 14..26 33. (1)Rom. 3. Ppd. i4.. Eph.2.2, 3. ,rom.5 .12,17, i 9.7olin 3.6. fo
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