comfortable walking with G*d.4 as infatiably, asBehemoth the river Iordarz : bee is yet {till like a the-wolle in the evening; at this very time caroufing al- molt in all corners of the Chriffian world, theblood of the Martyrs of Iefso as greedily, andwith as furious thirft, as e- ver heedid, lince the Dragon firft gave himhis power. But Reret. 13.4. Ihope in theftrong Godofour falvation (-Far firong is the caret. ¡L; Lord Gad, rohojaedgetb theWhore) that this is the laft draught and that upon his next health,as it were,begun to the Devil', in this cupoffierycruelty againft the fervantsof Chrift, the Viali ofGods unquenchable wrathwill choake him for ever. Blood he (hall have enough, butfrom the revenging hand of the Lord Godofrecompences, infury, and jealoufie. z Betides,that thus the rage of unfatiableneffe and reft- leinefieofpurfuit, doth Eä11 boyle in every camail heart, that is carried immoderately after its owne wayes, orinordinately upon any earthly thing : is is alto- thereby in Gods juff judgement extraordinarily hardened, and eílranged from God. For the deepelier our affe&ions are drowned in the World, and endearedtoany fenfuall delight ; the more del perately are they divorced fromGod, and deaded to hea- venly things. It is juft with God, to fuffer that heart to be turned fir(t intoearth andmud ; and after to friezeand cot - geale in fteele and Adamant, which prefcrres Earth before Heaven ; a dunghill before Paradife ; broken cifternes which canhold no water, before the ever-fpringing Fountáine of glory andbliffe ; a fewbitter-fweetepleafures, for an inchof time in this valeofmares, before unmixed and immeafurable ¡oyes, through all eternity in thofegloriousmaniions above. Our hearts are originallyhardby the curie of Nature, Ezek{, ia.19.afterward bya wilfull courfe,and continuance in finite, we -adde Adamant of our owne, Efay 4$.4. Zach, 7. 12. and bynotfuffering the Sword of the Spirit to fearch and fundeL our minion-delights from our bofomes, Heb.4. 7. Then Satan is let lodeto put tohis iron finewes,Luke zz..;.Laíily, God himfelfe hardeneth by anaáofje$ice, aswe may fee, aoab a 1. ao. Exod. 9. z z. Thus the heart which hates to be reformed, beingglued toa fenfuall objc&, or worldly loft, by its owne 4 inbred >f 133
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