joule-exalting humiliation. 17 3 _ - -Otherwife all your labour is lofi: : al1 your out- , :v ,r f h bll. .ri.C".J. I. ward formes o · umiliation, a uinences, for bearing ofharvefi:-wprkes,abridgement of your plea- Sec&.lob vers 8· fures and profits,will vanHh into nothing.See Matt . . ·6. I 6. !fa. 58•. As thofe formall Jewes loft alfo their labourinorherfervices, !fa. I.n.&c.Pfo. 50,g, All -outward fo-rmes :of humiliation are nothing, without turning from oar evill waies,and efpecially from our bofOme finne, Io~. 3~ ~. But alas !this loffe is nothing to that which follow~sin afecond place:neglea: ofthisdury,and not Reaf. 2 ' _keepingnowo(our covenant,will expofe us and lay us open to amore fierce and finall ruine, roamore implacable and devouring wrath. Heare thepeople · ofGod in Ezrah upon good grmmdprofeffing thus; ·Should wee againe breake thy commandements, and joyne in affinity withthe people of thefeabo- .~ninacions? wouldfr thou.not be angry with us till thou hadfi: confumed us, for that there fhould bee no remnant nor efcaping?Ezrah 9· 1 4~ Nay ifwee will not now obey;wee- mu£1: cafr our,felvesdefpe– rately upon the ibat'pe points ofany or 2!1 thofe fearefull plagues:and grievous judgements; Dutt. 28. 15.&c. Lev. 26. I4·ac. - · Nay yet furrher, all this.is not:hing to that which fo!Iowes. In-athi.rd place, ifwedoenot now make Re.if. 3• and keepe our-·covenant of parting from all our i:. vill wayes, and elpr:ciatly from that, orthofe fpedall fins, with which our confciences tfH ·us wee have moll: provoked God (whkhis-the life, and /fumme, and one mofi neceffary thingin this-excel- .lent and_extraordinary ·ex~rcife of f~fring .rand · - prayer,~ ax;a...., .. f:tt-. ..&: ,.gMltl ((. .ss j - £E ZF_( 4 _Q
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