72 IncPoo an famítp Moot. rayment, and all the mercierwhich they abufe to gra tike their Tufts. But they Love him not ishe is Holy, and a Righteous Governour forbidding fin, requiring holinefs, hating and punifüing the ungodly, refiraining tieitly lulls, and_not forgiving nor faving the impeni- tent. If you had loved God all this while indeed, would you not have loved his word, and loved to ppraife him and call upon hisname, and loved what he toveth, and delighted todohis will and pleafe him ? did you love God when you broke his Laws, and hated Holinefs, and could not abide- an obedient, holy, heavenly life, and loved not to think or talk much of him, nor to call upon him ? You may as well fay that he lovech the King who fpits in his face and rebelleth à- gainft him. As long as you think you have been a lover of God inyour (y) finful Rate of life, and think it fo eafie fill to love him', you know- not God, you know not your fell, yóùknow not the need or the nature of true .con :. verfion, nor can you Repent of this Greateft fin, while you know riot di it you are guilty of ir. Do you not know that you haveall this while been an enemy to God, and a Hater ofhim ? .S. Ihave been itn enemy to my felt, but fare no body can hate God. P. Where there is enmity, loathing, averfation of mindand unwillingnefs, there is hatred. The carnal mind is enmity againft God : for it is not ftibjetl to the Law of God nor indeed can be, Rom. 8. 5, 6, 7. If there were no enmity between God and man, what (y) Ep;_. 2. r, 2, 3. Ro,41.8, 6,7 .Rotn. 5.9, z©. need
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