The Prevalencyof Seighnefe imall Relations. fervant or child go prayerlefs to their work, and few regard it : but they will not go without meat, ordrink , or cloathes. The Mailer will fuller them to negle& Gods fervice ; but if they negle& his own , and should do him no more or better fervice then they do to God, they fhould loon hear of it, and be turn- ed out of door, and they were no fervants for him. They will teach their children to do their own work or fet them Appren- tices to learn it : but the workof God and their falvation, they (hall for them have little teaching in , how plainly foever God bath commanded it them , Dew. i 1. 18, 19. & 6. 6, 7, 8. Eph. 6.4. Let a fervant or child reproach his Mailer or Parent or call them all tonaught and they think not fit to put up that ( nor indeed is it ) but let them fwear by the name of God or break his Laws, and they can patiently bear with it, and a cold rebuke like Eli's will ferve turn. They can get them into field or (hop to work together, but they cannot get them before and after to prayer together. And why is all this ? Why one is for Self, and the other is for God : One is for the body , and the other is for thefoul. So that you fee what Self can do, and how commonly it is the mailer of Family, Towns and Couutries,becaufe it is the mailer in mens fouls. Godmutt be loved above a//,and our neighbour as ourfelves: But if God were allowed but fo much love as a very neighbour timid have , it would not be all fo ill with the felflfh world as now it is. But becaufe I have been fo long on this firli difcovery of the power of Self, and the fcarcityof Self-oknyal, I will be (honer in the reit that follow. C H A
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