IVA 'Pm pans3 famílp 73 need was there ofa Mediator or Reconciler ? And will you think fo ill of the molt Gracious God , and fo well of your Pelf a naughty firmer, as to think that the enmity is (z) only in God, and not in you ? Is he an enemy to any man that is not firft an enemy to him ? He hateth all the workers of iniquity : Pf1.5. s. becaufe they are all enemies to him; and contrary to his holinefs as darknefs is to light. It is the very cafe of all ungodly perfons, that their hearts are turned away fromGod to this (a) world and to the pleafures ofthe fleth, and being in Lovewith thefe, they (b) love not that God, nor that holy word, which calls them off, and condemneth them for their finful minds and pleafures. Let your Confcience (peak plainly : Had not the world more ofyour Heart than Heaven ? Were you not a lover ofPleafure more than of Cod ? Were not yoúr thoughts lying down and riling up , and all the day, more forward and ready to think of your worldly and flefhly concernmcnts, than of God ? And were not thole thoughts more fweet and welcome to you ? Was not your heart fo loth and backward to think of God with pleafure, that you never did feri- ouflyfet your Pelf one hour together in your life, to meditate of him and of the Heavenly Glory ? Nay, in Sermons and Prayer you could not keep your Thoughts uponhim. You know what it is to love your friend, to love your money, lands and pleafure : Do you know by as good experience what it is to love God ? And ifyou love him not above all, you love him not indeed (z) Zech.I I.8. Eph.3. I g, 19. (a) Phil. 3. 18, i 9. Col. I. (b) Heb. Io. 13. 7,tiks I¢. 2,7. 7P.I. Pfal. 37 .201 as
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