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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
fountain
of
life
;
who
fo
is
far from him, mull
perifh.
Bleffed
are
h°
w rti
,
rO
the
people,
whofe
God
is
the
Lord :
,Cutrfed
are
they that
are far
from
G,;e.
him
:
He
is
the
fountain
of
life;
The
Father
of
lights,
James
1.16.
l'1,1.144..
Thou
cutteft
off
all
that go
a
whoring after
other gods
;
Cur
f
d
be
he
¡
l'
''
r'
that
is
withdrawn
from
the
Lord
bis God,
Pfaf.73.27.
Idolaters, either
by falfe
wokfbip,
or by hearts
withdrawn
from God
,
flrlll
not
enter
into the kingdom
of
God:
All bynature
arc
eftranged,
yea enemies
to
God;
the hypocrite forgets
God.
He
that
keeps
my
.
Commandements,
the
Father
and 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
examine
our
Rate,
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
God
our
God,
till we come
to
know
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 are
by
the
vifion
of
God,
which
is
begun
in
us, one
with him, and
in
him.
Secondly
,
when
we
make him our truft,hanging
all
our hopes on
2.
his
mercie and
truth
towards
us
:
Who
fo
repofeth
all
his
confidence
in
God,
he taketh him
in fo
doing 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 from
evils fpiri-
tuall, yea
and
corporal!
,
calling
all
our
care
on him , Having
no con.
fidence
in
the flefh, but rejoycing
in Chrifl
ze
firs,
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
?
or
in
earth
in
comparifon
of'
thee ?
Pfal. 73. 25.
This
is
feen
by
that
joy
and
de-
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.
When
we hear
Gods
Name
blafphemed,
and all wicked
neffe
committed,
our hearts melt away
with
grief;
and
our
eyes girth
out
tears;
when wee delight
in
his
Statutes, more
then
in
all
wealth.
Fourthly, we
have
God
for
our God, when
above
all
we fear
him,
and
dread
to
offend
him, becaufe
he
hath
been gracious
unto
us, and
bath power
to do with
us as
he pleafeth.
When
we
tremble
at
his
judgements
,
which
fo
long
have been upon
us, and
Rill
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
2
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