---_ 342 The Coantet'fèitif Inherent Grog. S a c r, ÿit. 3 Immoderate love of the world, or vo- luptuouscour fes. god ly,juft,orunjull. The Pfalmitt faith, The foolbath raidin hie heart, thereinto god, Pfalme t4. t. It's not ?ebovab,in the originali, but Elehim, none that judg. eth, or governeth the world, taking notice of things done here below ; and how great an incouragement this is togoeon in wickednefle, appeareth by that of Solo- mon, Becasfejudgement is notffeedily executed upon the Wicked, therefore is theheart of a man withinhim let uponfoRy,Eccles. 7. 8, r t. Oh then if thou wouldcft have thefe principles of confcience quick and active within thee, then doe thou by Scrip . tore information, confider of all Gods adminiftrationsherebelow, knowing that eyenwhat is moll crooked to thy appreheafron is yetftreight : as the flick in the water, thoughflreighr, yet feemeth crooked, becaufe the water is not a fit medi- um to feeby : So thouart aflonithedat many Providencesof God in this 'world, and thou asked, Where is the Juftice, theWifdome, the Equality of thefe things? but thoulookelt through anunfit medium, and fo they fecalcrooked to thee. Alas, the Scripturedoth evidently informe usof jutl, and wife ends, why God tome. times fàffered hisenemies toprofper, and godlineffe tobe perfecuted,and his Saints made Martyrs forhis Name fake ; fo that the Word of God is the truthGlalfe to reprefnt the faceof all things here below, efpecially that is fatisfaitory, that God huhappointed a day of judgement for the whole world, when all thall ap- pear, and be judged for what is done in the earth ; and ashore below they do not complain that Malefatiors are not executed before the Aflizes, but patiently ex- pect that time : So are we quietly to wait that greatday, wherein God will fettle all things according to theirnature and defects. Letno man thereforehardenhim- !elf in impiety, thinking Ihave been thus long a prophane, unjult, ungodly man, and l am well and lutly, nothing aileth , or troubleth me : Let not this caute- rize thy Confcienre, for thouart but as the beattfatted for the Shambles.. A thirdway to ch,er this work of nature , is ?longing and drowning our felves into earthly thing.s,or valuprnoau courted. Fait, Earthly things : There are none fcaece have leffe confcienceabout good and rvdl, lette apprchenfion about God, than thole that like Moles are aiwayes digging in the earth. yudae froma covetous principle within, betrayeth and feileth innocent blond. How could he commit filch an unnatural! fin, dothat which the natural light of would focondemn? 1 t wasCovctoufnefs.Which made the Apotllecall the loveof mony,thc root of allevil,r Tim, 6. t o. as that which would put out all div;ne & humane light in a man.The Pharifeeswho werecovetous derided and fcorned Chn4; thefe Terra f iii are never Cali filü, Thcfe Children or' Sons of the earth, are never capacious of heavenly light. Its thepunithment uponmany a manwhich twas on theSerpent, to lick the duflof the earth, and to live upon that ; fo many mengoeto bed, rife and walk wholly with earthly and worldly alheeions, into theft they are eventransformed, and made like clods of earth. Now filch men have very little apprebenfion upon finne, or godlineffc; were it not for the thapeof their bodies, you might judge them bestia,for they re- gard oncly the things of fenfe. Thus as the gloriousSonne iseclípfed by the inter- pofition of the Moon ; fo doe arthy thoughts, and earthy affe&ionsobfcure that perry light, which thinech in a mans breafl; and certainly, it love of -the world bath put out the Gofpel, and Scripture light that finned in tome motsbreafts, as the Scripturegives pregnantproofs of it ; no wonder if it do wholly extinguith the light of nature. Take heed thenof affairs judgement or a worth.; he wan bodily !wallowed up in the earth, but thouin rhy foul and fpirie. Is it not with thep as the barren heath, that brings forth nothingbut Briars andThorns fit for burn- ing ; fo thy life producetb nothing but damnablematter, and what makesfor act- nail defira :ion. Be not therefore in this fenfe , a worm andnoman, onethat is wholly bred of the earth, and livethinit : Though ;stature and grace preach to fach; though the Word of God cry atoad to fuck, yet they have no cares to hear. Secondly, men plunged in`voluptuousriotous comics, living is be4Flly ft[fs,
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