comfortable walking-with cod. in the,fan&ified foule, I have difcovered in my Difecurfe o trree Happine ,pag.a 5. and theremade tender offorre cor- rofivesand counterpoyfons againgft it. Towhich atthis time Iadde thefe: When thou beginneft with anover-weening conceit re admire thy felfe immoderately and abovethat which ismeet call thineeyes. a. Upon thepurityand piercingofGods all-feeingEye, ten thoufand times brighter than theSunne, andpurer than purityit felfe; which fees finne tobe infinitely more finfull and loathfomethan thou cardpoffible : whereby His holy juflice is incenfedwith infinite indignation,and unquench. able feverity againft it.Witneffe the turninginto. Devils,ir- recoverable deflru&ion, and everlafting downfall offoma- nyglorious creatures, the topandmafler-piece,as itwere,of all Godshandyworke,íhiningonce fo fairely in thehigheft heaven, andneereft unto his EmperiallThrone ; The curie which fell upon .Adam andalibis pofteritie, foreating the forbiddenfruit: Theconfufons which cameupon the firft world by the flood r The burning ofSodomewith fireand brimftone from heaven : The fearefull reje&ionofhis owne ancient peopleThe horrours of a guilty enraged confci. ence, which is a hell upon earth, and damnation above ground : The everlafting fire which is preparedfor repro batemenand Angels, &c. Neither doth this brightf Eye onely fee all thy finnes in theirnative fouleneffe, but alfoin, their truefi number. Thou perhaps, for want ofmore fpi rituali eye-falve, beholdefi them but as farres ina glootnie evening; but affure thy felfe, He fees them, as moates in the Sunne, and as Starres in the clearefi winters midnight. Me. thinks,this mortifyingmeditation fhould rather make thee grow into further detefiationoffinne, thenadmirationof thy felfe. 2, ÿpon the incomprehenfible perfe&ions and abfolute pureneffeofGods moft holy nature : the fplendour where. of dothdale thecleerefi eyes ofthe brighteft.Seraphims,at$`,: dothdrown, as itwere, all Angelical)glory; as theSunnes Z a pretence 341
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