44 The Evil ofEvils, Or the nave your tails down ? or not half.fo much fil- led as theyare when they Carrie yOu upon the rocks and rands ? So here, it is jgff as if you thould fee aman rejoice that his fails be filled with wind, andall his fails up, when another that handsby knows, it carries him upon the fands that will undo him. So it is with a man that rejoiceth in Profperitie, that carries him with full failto wiclsednefs. God fills their fails, theirhearts be filled to the full, with all that their hearts candefire, and they he filled with all their braverie, but this (as the fail) carries them onfurther to Sin and wickednefs; upon the rocks and fandsto eternal deftru lion : It werebetter for there men, that their failswere down, andall under the hatches, a thoufand times better than tohave all the libertie toSin. I befeeehyoubrethren, Obferve the difference betweenGods difpenfations and his dealings with thevicked, andhis difpenfations anddea- lings withhisChildren, in this one thing it is ve- Frie obfervable; with the wickedGoddeals thus, . jut} judgment he fullers fumbling blocks to lie in the way of Religion, that they Humble therein, and find abundance ofdificultie,when. theyhave Tome good flirrings oftheiraffections, and goodmotions, and intentions; but there is fuch ahumbling block they be offended at and fuck athing lies there and hinders them, and makes the wales of R ELI o I oN difficult : but when they cometo thewaies of Sin, there all their wales be fmooth, there's no Humbling block lies there, but all clear,. and God fuf fers
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