G 268 The Evil of Evils, Or the * This sras preach- edon the 2. of Yanuary ved though it beof a dog, and they will boaft fomtimes, fuch adog, or a horfe loved fuch an one, lovedhis Mafler; whenhe doth but come home, theywill leap, and fkip, and faunon him. Dowe take delight to have our neighbors, or the family love us ? nay, for the dog to love us? Oh what is the love ofan infinite, eternal, gloriousGod ! Aman accounts it an evil ifthe dogonly fnarl andbark at him, this we account an evil : Ohwhat an evil is it then, tohave the infinite, eternal, onlywifeGod to be an enemy, and I the obje& of his hatred ! Oh think of thefe things. And Brethren, in thefe times it is tobe feared youcontra& abundanceoffin; you will have more to aufwer for before thefe * twelve dales be gone, than you had before Oh let this flop the courfe offòrne fin, that o- therwifemight be committed in thefe timesof fenfuallity; therefore when you fee fome go on in fnful waies, do you flopand fay,God for- bid I Mould do as theydo; I have been in fuch a place, andheard what fin is heardhow it is a- gainfl God, and this might flop me; but this day I haveheard how it is ag. tnfl me and my own foul, and how it deftroyes my own foul, therefore Iwill hate fineverlaftingly. 1110,VVIPISIMPAVif ViP1)10,
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