3 # é of lijreLltsal Callüo3. 6I provokingGod, of finning arainfi his confcience, of eternal damning in hell. He makes but a boldderirion of filch things. Oh the patienceof Godthat can- feth not the thunderbolts of hisvengeance to ftrike fach immediately into hell : Ohthen take needof thisheThiy wifdom, whereby thouwilt choofe to commit a thoufand fins, rather then lofe'thelealtearthly advantage ! This will prove gall and wormwood at the later end. This will rear like a Lion in thy confcience hereafter. We fhall one day hear thee cry out with 7udas : Oh I have finned in betraying my foul, in betraying my confcience, in betraying the truth of God, unlefft, Faith and Repentance prevent fach wounds and blows ! Lafily, The wife, woeafter theflefhfo livesand ordersall his affairs, as if God ß: didnot rode andgovern inshe world; as if it were ofman to orderall his own af- Lives as if fairs; as if God kept isimfelf within thecircleof the heavens, and let the cons Goddid not ofmendowhat they pleafed;,and from thisitis that meet carnal wifdom difco- lute. vers it Pelf remarkably in two things : a. It tru(techonly tooutward helps and humane refuges, as for faith in God, and trust in the promifes, theyregard it not, but as fo much breach out of the Minders mouths. You have the Prophet Ifaiah and feremiah debating this cafe with the Ifraelites, They would not eruct in God, They would have the Armof Affyria, They would gointo Egypt and they thought this was the on- ly wifdom in howmany places doth God perftringe this? and the Prophet by way of a (harp itrilon eels them, Yet God is alto wife; They regard no wifdom but of man, yet God isallowife,lfa.3i.a. 2. Under the judgements of God in the world not to he humbled, not to look on them as the ftroaks of God, but to be like fenfleffebeafts under Gods anger. VI; of In/ire lion. Learn what cenfure topaffe upon all worldlywifdom.Ne- Vfe._ vet call that Paving ofthy fell, which is indeed filch infinite lootingof thee : Oh pray that Godwould give thee the true heavenly wifdom which is from above. We may lay, Thisflefhly wifdom is that which lets hell on fire; Take that away, and there wouldbe no hell ; as he laid of fell love, Oh kill this Serpent that crawls in thy breit ! Thou hadil been godly long before this time, but for car- nal wifdom. Thou had(t been as forward as any other in the way to Heaven, but for thisHeftily wifdome. Thou wouldit not have defiled thy confcience, and goneagainft it, but for flefhly.wifdom : Oh how is it, that after fo much hearing and reading ; thy fins are not cuff away 1 thy confcience is convin- ced, thy heart many times trembleth ; Oh it is this carnal ,wifdome bin- ders thee I SIRM. or.
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