268 True hatred is to the whole hind, Anfi, * Pliny faith, that the very trees with touching of it, would bzcome harrph ) mat, 27, 46. A Box of precious Ointmtnt : Or, hate evil. Amos 5. 15. Hate the evil and love the good. Pfal. 119'. 104. 7 kroligh thy precepts I get underflanding, therefore I hate every falfe wr.y. Ver.,' 28. Therefore. I efieem all thy pre- cepts concerning till things,to. be right, and I rate ever)falfe gay. Ver. 113. [hate v.:in thooghts, big thy Laps do I Lye. Ver. 163. 1 hate and abhor lying, la: thy Lao, do 1 love, True hatred is univerfal, 'tis -of the whole kind ; he who hates a toad Hecaufe it is a toad, hates every. toad ;, he that hates a fer- pent becaufe it is, a ferpent, hates every ferpent ; he that hates-a wolf becaufe 'tis a wolf,: hates every wolf; he that hates a man becaufe he is holy, hates every man that is holy ; andlo he that hates fin becaufe it is fin, hates every fin, and therefore he can't but turn from it,and labour to be the death andiruin of it. Holy hatred is an implacable and an irrecon- cilable affedion ; yoa ihall as foon reconcile God and Satan together, Chrifl and Antichrift together, heaven and hell together, as you fhall be able to reconcile a penitent foul and his fin togetber. A true penitent looks upon every fin as con- trary to the Law of God, the nature of God, the being of God; the glory of. God, and accordingly his heart rifes a- ri vainit it 2 he looks upon every fin as poyfon, as the vomit of a dog, as the mire of the ftreet, as the menftroustloth, which of all things in the Law was moll unclean, defiling and polluting ; and this turns his heart againft every fin, he looks upon every fin as having a hand in apprehending, betraying, banding, fcourging, condemning and murdering of his Lord Ind Mailer jelus Chrift ; and this-works him not only -to re- irain from fin, but to forfake it, and not only to forfake it, out alfo to abhor it, and to loath it more than hell it felf. The penitent foul will do all be can to be the death of every fin chat has had a hand in the death of his Lord and Mailer ; he looks 'Ton the fins of his body, to be the tormentors of Chrift's body, and the fins of his foul, to be the tormentors of Chrift's foul, to be thofe that made his foul heavy to the death, and that caufed the vvithdrawings of his father's love from him, and that forced him in the anguifh of his foul to cry out, My God, my God, nhy haft thou forfaken me. And this :aifes up inlim a univerfal hatred of fin ; and a univerfal ha- tred
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