288 Enemy toall Morality :Faith:: Prayer : obedience. affe&ions that have been all this while detained from him, and mif-imployed by /elf ; Down then with this idol and Set up God. Did youmake your felves ? or redeem your felves ? or do you fuitain your felves, or are you fufficient for your felves ? Let him that cloth all this for you be acknowledged to have the only Title to you ; And confider what an odious crime it is for fuch worms to exalt themfelves as Gods, and fo deny the Lord tobe their God. C EI AP. L X IV. ;Enemy to all Morality :.Faith : Prayer : obedience. z. Oreover, this Self is the Enemy as of<God liimfelf, fo alfo of all theframe of Morality : Of Every Article of your Belief, and Every Pet,tionin the Lords Prayer, and of every one of the ten Commandments, ana of the whole wordof God. i. For your Belief, it aclvancethyour own Reafonagainft it, as to the Truth of it fo that you cannot difcern thefe things of God, becaufe they are Spiritually difcerned. It fhutteth up your underilandings againft the Meaning of it ; fo that when you know the Grammatical fenfe of the words , you knownot half the meaningyet for all that. The words are written to fignifie thefpiritualapprehenfiew and affeaiont which theholy inditers had of the matter fignified by them ; And till you come by the help of thofe words to have the fame im- prep uponyourfouls, the fameapprehentions and jet-lions which the inditers had, and intended to exprefs by them, you have not the perfe6t underflanding of the Scriptures And there- sore while you are wholly without their fpiritual ;41rd:1er:flout and Affellions, you do not fo muchas fincerely or truly under- fland them ; however youmay be able to (peak as good Gram- marians, and true Expofitors in the explaining of them to others.. And alfo felfifhnefs in the Will doth make you clifrelifb the Doarine whichyou should believe, becaufe that being Practical, either the Dotrine, or its eonfequence , or the
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