Iconfcience of a divine power, and were worfhippers of the great II -'14' Nana. Il This then is a wonderful! mifery of any, to bewithout Grid : God DcEI.A is a fountainof life ; who fo is far from him, mull perifh. Bleffed are h°w rti , rO thepeople, whofe God is the Lord : ,Cutrfed are they that are far from G,;e. him : He is the fountain of life; The Fatheroflights, James 1.16. l'1,1.144.. Thou cutteft off all that go a whoring afterother gods ; Cur fd be he ¡ l' '' r' that is withdrawn from the Lord bis God, Pfaf.73.27. Idolaters, either by falfewokfbip, or by hearts withdrawn from God , flrlll notenter into the kingdom of God: All bynature arc eftranged, yea enemies to God; the hypocrite forgets God. He that keeps my . Commandements, the Fatherand the Son dine! in him, Job. x4.23. I If all our mifery be in the want of having God for our God, then PR. let us examineourRate, whether we have him or no : God in Chrift wh he;"aw" faith, H: will take us for his people ; We protnife, that we will have have Go Tor him for our God. Now the having of God for our God, doth corn- °"' God. prize all our.duty to God, that we fet up God in our hearts, as God : which thing we do; a. When we grow up to know him in all things; we cannot x. have Godour God, till we come toknow himin Chrift. Ignorance doth eftrange us from God , and Knowledge doth acquaint us with jhim. For look as theeye becometh one with that which it feeds, and is after a fort.in that light it beholds; fo we areby the vifion of God, which is begun in us, one with him, and in him. Secondly , whenwe make him our truft,hanging all our hopes on 2. hismercie and truth towards us : Who fo repofeth all his confidence in God, he taketh him in fodoing for his God ; mating on him for the giving and maintaining of all our good, both temporali and eter- nal], leaning on him for all defence, and deliverance fromevils fpiri- tuall, yea and corporal! , calling all our careon him , Having no con. fidence in the flefh, but rejoycing in Chrifl zefirs, Phil.3.3 Thirdly, when we love him above all: Love, we know, makes 3. man and woman one; and the fame Both handfall us to God. When our hearts can fay, Lord, what have we is heaven but thee ? orin earth in comparifon of'thee ? Pfal. 73. 25. This is feen by that joyandde- light we have in coming privately or publikely into Gods houfeor prefence ; When our hearts long to be diffelved, and to be with ChriJF, Phil. x.23. Whenwe hear Gods Name blafphemed, and all wicked neffecommitted, our hearts melt away with grief; and our eyes girth out tears; when wee delight in his Statutes, more then in all wealth. Fourthly, wehave God for our God, whenabove all we fear him, and dread tooffend him, becaufehe hath been gracious untous, and bath power to do with us as he pleafeth. When we tremble at his judgements , which fo longhave been upon us, andRill hover about us : When we fear by the leaft fin to difpleafe bins : When our ,hearts are reverently affated in his prefence; afraid to trefpaffe vainft V fi R. 13. Epl.aeant, Chap .2.. j 2Sí
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