ano famíip lSooh. as God. Were you not more weary of holy thoughts, or holy conference, or prayer, than of your worldly bu- finefs, or, difcourfe ? Was not your heart againft the Holincfs- and flri&nefs of Gods word andof his fer- vants ? In a word, ifyou had no (c) Enmity to a Holy and Heavenlymind and life, why did you not choofe it? Andwhy could not all Gods mercies invite you to it ? Nor all teaching and intreaties ever perfwade you to it ? Why are you yet fo backward to it ? Is this rio En- mity? And if you were an Enemy to Holinefs, and to the Holy word and Government of God,was not this to be an Enemy to God ? I tell you, we are all Ene- mies to God till Chrift have reconciled us, and the Holy Ghoff renewed us, and turned the Enmity into Love. S.I never laid this State of Enmity to heart till now. I knew that Iwas a inner : But I knew not that I was an Enemy to God, even when I began to fear that he was for myfin an Enemy to me. But I find now that it bath beenwith me juft as you fay ; And I perceive that all fin loathforce Enmity to God in it. P. Where God is not loved as God, he is in force fort (d) hated : And between Love and Enmity there is in man no middle State. For none in this are perfee4 Neuters, or indifferent. Have you not heard that Enmity between the feed of the Woman, and of the Serpent was put from the beginning of the Covenant of Grace ? And how this was prefently matjifefted in Cain and Abel, the two firil men and brothers that were /c) Gen. 3.15. yam. 4.. 4. Rom, 8.7. (d) Rom. 'I. 30. Pfal. 81.25 . 68. t .. z t .b.Corrsmar d 2. Dent.7. i o. 2chr. 19.2. born
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