es 8 A Box of precious Ointment : Or, one with fin. Look how it was between the Lord and Aris4 - ek, fo it is between a gracious foul and his fins. Now if you turn to -that Extd. f7. 16. you ihall find how it was between the Lord and Arnalek,Becattfe the Lord hash [worn, that the Lord gilt have mar pith Arnalek from Generation to Generation ; Or as the Hebrew has it, The hand upon the throne of the Lord, Gods hand is la d upon his own Throne, as fwearing to root out Analek; or becaufe elmaleks hand is lifted up againfi Gods Throne, that is the Church, (fo called in jer. 4. 2 1. and Crown of Glory,dfa. 62. 3.) therefore God will have perpetual wars with 4malek: God could as foon be. recon- ciled to Atnalek, as a gracious Chriflian can be reconciled to his fins. Others fenle the words thus; that Moles had a fo- lemn Oath (as it were laying his hand upon Gods Throne) for affeveration and affurance, that he and the people will have an irreconcilable war with the poflerity of Amale1. And fo every gracious foul is refolved to make an irrecon- cileable war with fin. But now where there is only, com- mon Grace, there a man deals by his fins as David did by his fon Abfolom, banifh him his Court for a time, and afterwards receive him into full favour, and court him as-much or more than before. An unfound heart may fall out with his fin, and be very angry with its fin, for the confequence, of it, for the fharne it brings upon his perfon, for the blot it-leaves up- on his name, and for the flinging guilt and convulfion fits which it caufeth in his Confcience, and yet this very perfon be in a very dole and aria league with fin, and his heart in- wardly and wrongly adhering unto fine Bat a gracious heart will be flill a reftraining of fin, a curbing of fin, a croffingof fin, a making head againft fin, and a withflandin. it in all its workings. Anger may be reconciled, 4ut hatred cannot. Eighthly, Where die very prevailing of fin are ordinari- ly made ferviceable to high and holy, to gracious and fpiri- tual ends, there certainly is a faving workof God upon that mans foul.. As when they produce more Soul-loathing, Soul-humiliation, Self-judging, Self-abafement, Self-abhor ring a or when they fill the Soul with a greater admiration of 8. Zia. II. it,63. EP1142.136)7.
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