292 ofGodsWorkmegfiip. S s c -T, VI, theycould not endure. ThusPfal.rto. ThypeepleJfiall be Willing in the day of thypower; Oh then that wecould fee God making fuch awonderfulcbange up- on us. The timebathbeen, thou waft an enemy to all godlywales, a profefred oppofer and fcorner ofthem. NoToad fo odious in thyeyes as one who lived Briefly and laboured to fear God in all his waies ; but now God hail made fuch a change that theyare only thy delight upon the earth. Thy righteous foul isnowlike Lote, grieved and tormented tofeeand hear the evil doings of wickedmen: if thus, thou art than one created togood works: 4. Fourthly, Where this powerfull Renovation is, ThereGod of a people tha. Were Weary of hisfervice, and repiningat it, as a burden, do nowdelight and rejoyce ix it , as the greatefi happixeffe they arecapable of. Thus If4.4. The Nations /hall flow to the mountains ofthe Lord. Though it beagainft their nature andcultome, and former advantagesof profit and pleafure, yet they overcome all thefe tem- ptations and account nothing fo dear, as the opportunities of enjoying God in his Ordinances. See inwhat an heavenly manner David: afleftions are en- flamed,who could livealwayes lathe Courts oftheLords hoofe,and envied the very Sparrows that came fonear theAltar. And certainly ifthe carnal and worldly heart can rejoice fo much in thofe advantages, where their lulls are fatisfied, . howmuch rather muffa fpiritual heart in themidit ofall thefe fpiritual applica- tions, becaufe fpiritual good thingsare unmixed, and haveno gall in them at all, as the good things ofthe world have ? S Fifthly, Ofapeople inconjtane and anfetledin the WayesofGod,by chi, new chaosgø he makes fixed and rootedupo t a fore Rock, Okferve the people of Jfrael, they oftencried unto the Lord in their extremities, but their hearts were not ftedfafb within them, and fo they quickly revoltedagain, .Pfal.18. ;r. But the people ofGod are Paid tobe likeMount Sion, that cannot beremoved, Pfal, s;3.3. The gares of hell cannot prevailagainfl them. Theyare an houle built upon a Rock, and fo when the winds and tempelis arife, they Handfall. As God is a God that changeth not, fo theyare holy, believing, and change not. Ifraels righteouf- neffe is Of a morning Dew, Hof.t 3.2. it quicklydrieth up, the Dew fals as Ari_ .f! eleobferveth, when the Mornings are neither too hot or cold ; Thusan heart that is lukewarm, and hathno real, inward efficacy of grace, fets uponDuties, but when the Sunne arifethand fcorcheth, prefently thegraffe withereth. Oh its a great Argument of this New Creation, to be fiedfaft and immovable in the workof the Lord. Not tochange with thetimes and feafons; To be one while for the truths and waies of God, and another while to be againft them. Thofe thingsthat are from a principleof natureareconfiant, and alwaies alike, but thole thingswhichcomeabout by accident, andas it happens; they arevari- ous and incertain. See then thouart, as it is Paid of Chrifl, The fame Teller- day, and to day, andfor ever. Asgreat ftormsand tempelts difcover what root- ing theTree bath, fo varietyof conditions doth manifeff what mettall we are madeof. As therefore Davidpraied, That God would alwaies keep up that willingneffe in themens hearts, who thenoffered to God; fo doe thou defire that Godalwaieswould-keep thyfoul in that tenderneffe, love and ffrong affe- &ions which lometim sare kindled in thee. johns hearers did .eÿ5 atoe, for an hour, a (hors feafon ä3 oX'aaoO3roe,Rejoyce exceedingly, as in triumph, but when his Miniffry began to touchthem dolefor their particular fins then they laid, He had aDevil e Now certainly God isalwaies the fame, that which is good is alwaies as lovely , that which is finne is alwayes as abominable; Therefore thy affeftions fhould be alwayes in the fame manner carri- ed out towards them. I might in many other particulars (hew you, how God doth create a peopleunto that which is good ? The term from which, and the term to which, Happy are the peoplewho finde loch a change. What wondering was there whentheApoftles, were filled with the holy Ghoft ; fo that
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