A choice Bed of Spices. 113 iniquity, ?fa/. 7. 14. to fhew what anxious pain and trou- ble they have in bringing about their wickednefs. Behold he travelleth oith iniquity ; br as the Hebrew has it, he (hall tra- vel, or he continually travelleth, he takes as great pains to go to Hell, as -a travelling woman cloth to be delivered. Wicked men are as laborious, and as reftlefs and unquiet in the pra6I ice of wickednefs, as a woman in labour is when the pangs of Travel are upon her. Sugred poifons go down pleafantly, 0 but when they are down, they gall, and gnaw, and gripe the very heart -strings afunder, 'tis- fo with fin. Dilly, the commands of fin are extreamly unreafonable,what an unreafonable thing is it to command a man to run into the fire, or to drown himfelf in the water, or to ftrangle himfelf, &c. Now all the commands of fin tend dire &ly and intentionally to the burning, drowning, wrangling, and dellroying of the finner. All fins commands tend to the dilhonour of God, the breach of his righteous Laws, and the damnation of the precious and immortal Soul,. Now where the commands of God do commonly carry it, againft all the commands of fin, there the Soul is certainly fincere with God. That we owe ,perfea obedience to Gods will, to Gods commands, is evident enough feveral wayes, and in particular from the univerfal obedience of all Creatures, 1 mean thole which are without reafon, fen fe, or life, for they inviolably obferve his commands, lid. 48. 13. Mine hand bath laid the Foundations of the earth, and my right hand, hark rpann'd the Heavens ; when I call to them they 'land up together, ae prepared to execute his commands. The infenfible parts of the world are fo compliant with his will, as to contradiet their proper natures to ferve his glory. Fire defcends from Hea- ven at his command, gen. 19. 24.2 Kings I. 10, II, 12. And the fluid Sea (lands up at his command, Exa/.14. 22. NoW what a fad thing is it that ChrifLans should at any time prove difloyal and rebellious, when all inferiour Creatures do with one confent ferve and - glorify the - great God. But, &C. Pr" Lo5:: Tenthly,
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