342 General! direaions for a 1......gatasssmacmcwa ...am,aanaomoRq OmPan ".. isSOMMENRIMage 4 ,.. prefence,the light of teller flarres; much more doth it utterly darken the materiall beauty of all the lights in heaven. Were the Sunne which is made all of brightneffe, and the ever. fpringing fountaine of frefh iliiniing beanies, pi dented be- fore-that unapproachable Light which betets Gods facred Throne ; it would vanifhaway, as a darkeCome moateand lumpe of vanity. Where thenwould a fraile man in a houfe of fieth appeare ? Behold, faith fob ,heput no trull in hie firvants ; andhis Angels he charged withfolly : howmuch left on them that dwell in houfes of clay, wholefiundation is in the dull,which are crufhed before the Moth,chap.4.1 8,1 9. Beheld, hepotter lo no trufl iu his Saints ; yea, theheavens are not clea.re in his fight howmuch more abominable andfilth] re man,which drinketh iniquity like water ? chap. 15.15,16, 'Behold even to the ulloone, andit fhinetb not, yea, the flarres are not pure in &slight : howmuch left man, that is a Worme : and thefonne of man which is a Worme ?chap. 25.5,6. A glimpfe, as it were, of that highell glory, fhining everlaltingly in that pureft in. created Elfence, Godbleffed for ever, did make righteous rob 4s C lob to abhorre himfelft, and repent in dull and afhes. Holy araiah 6-5. Ifaiab to cry, Woe is me, for I amundone. And fo if thou al- fo turne thine eye from the vanity of felfe. admiration to. ward the infinite Sunne of abfolute and incomprehenfible purity ; and then reflea upon thy felfe, as he that hath gazed toomuch upon our vifible Sunne , looking dowse againe te.eth nothing ; thou {halt behold the nothingneffe of thine overweened worth, and nothingbut darkencffe and defor- mity ; and fo {halt find infinite more matter of humiliation and abhorring thy felfe in dull and aches , then of felfe. eftirnationand conceitedneffe. 3. Vpon the cleere Crillall of Gods pure Law ' which can difcover unto thee the kali fpot that ever Rained to much as any one of thy thoughts ; fhines with that perfe& light, that it would guide aright every. Rep which thou ma. keit in thew)! which is called Holy, and is of that latitude for prohibition of finne , and leading to purity and exa& pleating of God o that thQugh wee may fee an endof all per- l'f41. It,. 5.
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