choice Bed of Spices. Chriftian knows, and therefore he gives him his right he / gives him the honour and the glory that is due unto his name. But pray do not mil-lake me,I do not fay that filch agate real- ly fincere, do a6tually eye the glory of chriftin all their aelions : Oh, no, this is a happinels defirable on earth, but fhall never be attained till we come to heaven. By and hale ends and aims will be Rill ready to creep into the belt hearts ; but all fincore hearts figh and groan under them, they com- plain to Gcd of them, and they cry out for juitice, juttice upon them, and it is the carnet} delires and daily endeavours of their fouls to be rid of them ; and therefore they fhall not be imputed to them, nor keep good things from them : But ' now take a fincere Chriftian in his ordinary, dual and habi- tual courfe, and you .shall find that his aims and ends in all his aotions and undertakings are to glorifie God, to exalt God, and to lift up God in the world. If the Hypocrite did in good earneft aim at the glory-of God in what he does, then the glory of God would fwallow up all his by aims and carnal ends as e/f droll.; rod fvallowed up the Magicians rods. Look, as the Sun puts out the light of, the fire, fo the glory of God i Exod.7102 ", IL 0 `db (where it is aimed at) will put- out and confame all by and bale ends. This is mo4 certain; that which is a man's great end, that will work out all- other ends ; he that lets up the glory of God as his chief end,will find that his chief end will by degrees eat out all low and-bale ends. Look, as 'Pharaoh's lean kine ate up the fat, fo the glory of God will eat up all thole fat and worldly ends that crowd in upon the foul in re- ligious work. Where the glory of God is kept up as a man's greateft end there all by and bale ends will be kept at an un- der. By what has been laid, 'tis molt evident, that an Hypo- crite in all his tranfa &ions looks at hinalelf, and deigns the I advance and advantage of himfelf. An Hypocrite is as well able to make a world, and to unmake hiinfelf, as he is able to make the glory of God, the exaltation of God his highett end, his utrnoft aim in what he does. But, 297 Gen. 41. 4, I_ Fifthly, No Hypocrite can live wholly and only upon the Qq rioh_
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