242 .Reputation of Gifts andfpiritudl Abilities, &c. about you in every duty I Eefides all the wants and loathfom corruptions of your fouls, which follow you wherever you goe, the very fins of your duties, one would think, Mould humble you. Oh to have fuch low conceptions, fuch dull ap- prehenfions , inch heartlefs, unreverent poor expreftions of fuch a God, fuch a ( hrift, fuch a glory, and fuch holy truth, Should make us athamed to open our Lips before the Lord, and wonder that he doth not tread us into hell, inflead, of re- garding, us or our fervices , and that fire dothnot come forth from his jealoufie and confurne us I It theta make, us fo far from glorying in our performances, that it Oiculd drive us to Chrift in everyduty, to take him with is to flicker us from the flames of holy jealoufie fo that we fhould not dare to go.any further then he goes before us, and fiands between us.aud the wrathof God,nor to Speak a word but in his name, nor to expea any welion-i but on hisacccunt. 'Shall a wretch . beProud of tl at performance whofe failings deferve ever- !ailing torments ! l\rull yoube beholden to Chrifl to Saveyou fi;om the Hell that the fins of, your performances deferve, and yet dare you be yroud of them ? Let a Papift run that de- fperate pa,h, that rails at us for .laying:hat our bell duties are mixt with fin, and that this ,fin cleferves the wrath of-Gott; Let them refufea Phyfic'an that think not thernfelves lick ; and let them tellarift they will not be beholden to him.for a par- don for the fins of their prayers. and. other duties: but for (lime let not am beguiltyof this, who .profefs to be. better acquaintedwith our infirmities. 3. Confider alfo that you have to do fo with fo Holy and Glorious a God, that to beProud 1 efore Him, and that in andof our very fervice of him, is a fnwhole greatnels fur- paffeth.our apprehenfions. Had you. to do with a man like . your felves, you might bet.,er lift up your felves againfi him. There is nothing comparatively in the prefenceof the greateft Prince, toaumbieandabafe you': But to be Proud before. the Cod of heaven, andshat in. and of our lamentably weak -a d- dreffes to him; 0 'what an horridly impious, unreafonable thingis this? 0man, ifthy eyes Were opened tofee a little, a itkry little of the gloryof that Wiled .God,. thou fpeakeft ,
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