S n c T. IX. ofCómverfros,orTa rwingt.n,oGbd. g dome. Now that will prefentlyadvife him ro take heed of that fin which will moth eafily feduce him: He will takeheedof that fire which bath fo gritvoutly fcorchedhim; He Will remember the deadly wounds and bloody tiroaks fuch finneshave given.his Confcience; and therefore he is afraid,andtrembleth at theGverie approach of fueh finnes. David when he had been throughly bumbled for his Murder of Oriah, afterwards refuted to drink the Water that men jeoparded their lives for f This is the bloud of man, he cryetb out: So will the true Convert beafraid to comenear the borders, near thetemptations of his old former fins. Laftly, Thereforedoth Converfos makea men leavebit darlingfanet, becaufe, it pars aman uponJIowingekegreate i love he can to God, whokath Jhewed fo much to bim. Nowwherein can he thewmore fervice and love to God , than by kill- ling hiseslbfolom, by offering his Ifemc t Now, faith God, 1 know then lovef{ me, becaufe thon haft not ¡pared thyonly beloved Sonne.. So God, Now I know thou are truely converted to me, for thou doti not fpare thy dear lufts thou dot} nor hide thybeloved finnes any more : Love to God will put a man upon this; and nowonder, for itputs a man to lofe his Wife, Children, yea his dear life for Chritls fake: is it then anywonder, if it parts a man and his beloved fumes? Ufe of Infiraffion, That all theyare frill in their Hypocrifie, and lye under Zl e, Gods wrath, who retain any beloved finse, What though thou doeft ma- ' ny things, yet if thouwilt not partwith thy Herodiso, thou art in Gall and Wormwood. And this is the rather to beobferved, becaufe a man may goe fat in the profeffìon of Religion, yet have force fecret beloved fine that he hugs in his Bofome all the while. Oh throw that Toad our of thy heart;; Chrith cannot, will not dwell in thy hart, till that enemy of his be dif lodged. Oh let a Indus be a Pillar of Salt to feafon you t Did not he pray, hear, work Miracles in Chrifls Name, and yet lived in a fecret belo- ved fine? God will unmask- Each Hypoctifie, and make thy finne finde thee out. SERM,
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