comfortable walking withGod. SI become the very defperate cut-throates to the power of godlineffe , and peflilent confumption of the fpirits, heart, and life oftruezeale. Thefe fellowes are moll infolent, and confident is their Pharafaicall brags, fpirituall fecuritie, and .hoes for Heaven. They admire, and applaud with much felte-eflimation oftheir fingular skill, and rare felicitie , in pitching jufi upon the golden meane , as they conceive , be- tweene prophanenefle and precifenef e; infamous notori- oufnefle, and perfecuted flri6ne%. But that Proverbe, in the meane time falls pat upon their pates : There is age- neration that are pure in their owne eyes : andyet t not waf- edfrom theirfilthine(fe : And at length moft certainely, the .jufi execution of that terrible cemmination , Reve1.3.16., will crufh their hearts with ever- lafling horrour, confuuon and woe. But I fhould bee erldlefe in the difcovery of this hidden and hellifh gulph of hypocrifie, wherein thoufands are fwallowed up, even in this glorious Mid-day of the Gof- pel. For a man may afloone finde out the way ofanEagle in theeAire, theway ofaSerpent upon a Roche, the way ofa Ship in the midit of the Sea , and thewayofa man witha maid, as to tracke the cunning and crooked footefleps of this foule fiend in the falfe hearts of Satans followers. Onely take notice, that thoucanfi never pocbly delight,in God, or ever comfortably come neere him, if thou give any enter- tainment unto it, in what forme foever it reprefent it felfe, or whatfoever vizor it offers unto thee, though ne- verfo fairely varnifhed, and guilded over with,the Divels angelical) glory. III. Build, and ereet all thy refolutions and conclufons for Heaven and Gods fervice,- upon that firong and purefi l' TaugIebr by the Lord !its hím_ Pillar,that maine, and;mofi-precious b Principle of Chriflia- reife, Lnk.sq.a6, &c. an a funda- mental! rule of C,r%!lia,irie. Adverfus parentes, adverfus libcros, adverfusnaturalem cognationem,con_ trauniverfum 6 bent rerrarum, contra ipfam etiam animam pugnarn inditit, arque aciem elFe in roen_ dam oftendit. Chryc in ""10 Mat. Hem 36. Paulcali s ir,The : ery frirtt ofour fervice of God : with- out which ei our other Religion; be it newer fo glorious sodgoodly, is no more lis ely, ray, is as r'ory a car_ raffe,a6the body ofa man, dePlate of that foule, which maketh itrealmable, and differivfrom all ether bodies. It was figured by the Holocaufi ofthe Law, whichfg1nsfiedthe facr,ficeofthe flefh,the crucifying of the old I dam.Y.ouun. i. geealfo Coloff 3 5 Mat.3. 29,30. Ea nitle.,
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