20 The Saints Hidingplace. warre unto God himfelf. 1, (faith the Duke) then, bel- lurn infepat Iliabolws,non ego;. then let the Devil wage warre againft him, for I will not. I hus faith turns away the fury of the (word 5 and committing our caul,: untoGod, tarns away the anger and wrath of God. But a man Cailnot coEnnit his caufe unto God, unlefie he cloth leekuntoGod ; and therefore, when his anger is abroad, and people at uncertainty, then it is their duty, then and then efpecially for to Peek untohim. 4/plica. By thisTruth weknow what we ought now to doe. gzejt. Your thoughts mayprevent rne, and fay, But the wrath and anger of God is pacified toward us, and this Nation : is not the warre at an end ? are not our fwords fully beaten into plow - (hares? kip. Now I would to God it were Co and long, Oh long may you fit under your vines and fig-trees, praifing the Name ofyour God Yet give me leave to tell youThree Realons why I conceive that God is angry withus fill, the day ofhis anger not yet done. gA Firff, The Plague is begun. The beginnings of a Plague are the figns of Gods anger. Run in quickly (faith Moles) pordtb is gone forth, theplague is begun,Num.' 6.46. Again, I cannot but think God is angry with us fii117 2_ becaufove are fo angry with one another. When God is reconciled to a people,they are reconciled among them- felves: our reconciliation, an emanation of his. Then the Lion and the Lamb lie down together : then the fucking :4Tolle child playes on the hole of the A fpe. Then * Envie @he crtyum,f1 root of all divition) and the wrath ofEphraim,Manageb, tote invidtam and yklth ctarethl Ifai. I I . Our love is a refleerion of ,r9":24eirbses7 Gods love. His love is thecaufe ofour love; but our love `4 is th,-: lign ofhis love: $o contrary. You may obferve therefore 'w(at die Lord faith by Micah, Chap. 7. to this purpoka,
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