·- rhe .Corruptivn if the Wi ll. tuial man would have . .God is holy; can an unholy creat~H'e ]o.ye his unfpotte.d holinefs? Nay, it i's the righteous -on!y that cangive thanks ·at the remembrancr: o.f' his holinefr, Pfal. lxx~vii.• I 2. God is light; c<>n creature.s of datknefs rejoice ,therein? Nay, ~very one that doth evil, hateth the ~ light, John iii. 20. Eor, what·communion hath light wit h– darkneji? 2 Cor,vi~~ q. (2.) Howflandyottr heartJ ajfiOed ta thejuflit-e o.f God?:-· There is not a man, who is wedded to his lufts, as all the · unregenerat~ are, but would .he content with, the blood of his body, to blot that letter out of the name of God. Can the matefaeto·r love his con·· demning judge? or an unju~ified finp~r, ajoft: God? No,. he cannot; Luke vii. 47; · :To whom little is forgiven, thq .fa!ne loveth /ittl.~. Hence feeing men cannot get tl~e · d~- ltrioe of his jull:ice ~lotted out of the bi~le ; yet ·it ~s fuch an eye-fore to them, drnt··, they {hive to blot it out ofth -~ i r mind. Ancf.. they rnin "themfelves by -pte(umin·g on his" mercy; while they are not carefuf to get a righteoufnefs, wherein they may thnd before his juilice; butfay in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither <UJ{IJ bt do evil, . Zeph. i. I2. (3.) Ho·wfiamiye ajfea~dto theomnifciencc .andomniprefem:e·ofGod? Men naturally would rather have a blind.idol, than an all feeing God ; and therefore ~o what they can, as..Adam did~- to hid themfelves .from the pre-· fence ol the Lord. · They ·no more love aoai]:feeing, e~erywhere prefent God; thaa the -thief loveno have the judge · witnefs .to his evil deeds. ·· Jf it couM b.e carried by votes~ God would be voted out of the world, · an'd clofed up in heaven: For tbe language of the ,carnaf hearT is, 'The Lord· · feeJh UJ not; th·e Lr;rd hathforfaken the earth, Ezek. viti. I 2. (4.) How fland )'e ajfefied 'to the trurh and vera-·, •ity ol Cod?. there are but .few in the world, that can · l~eanly fubfcrib.e to -t'hat fentence of the apoJ1le) Ro'~n i1i. -4. Let Cod be f.rue, and I} very man a liar . Nay truiy. there · a:re many, who, in effect do hope that God wili nvt be true · ~ · to. his .word , ,There are tboufands .wh~ hear the 'go fpel, • that h0pe to be faved, and think alJ fafe with them for ·eter– nity, who never had aoy ·e1tperience of the· ue ..v binh, r~or · ,. do at a-ll concern themfelves in that, qu~lho11, !Fhether.they ', ar.e born aga-in, or not? A que.fl:i,w t,h.H is like to wear out ;'from..a-mong us .trlii d;iy, _ .Our.J.,ord'swor~$ are pla,io ~wd .·:, peJ emptgry i
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