Burroughs - BT715 B8 1654

48 The Evil of Fvils, Cr the me todo? Oh that it might be fo this day, that Tome heart might fall down trembling, and alto- nithed : and when you get alone, and think on what hath been declared, fay, Lord, in the waies of fin a have oppoCcd, refitted, and been an Enemy to thee ; OhLord T never thought it, Oh nowLord forgive. It is time,it is time Bre- thren,to ce:+fe refilling ofGod; end walking con trary to God;- for he is above you, and wil have the Victory and the glory over all Creatures Oh perhaps thou haft been an old Enemy, an old Sinner, that all thy dales haft walked on in a courfe of tin; yea, perhaps thy Father bath been anEnemy, thou his Enemy, and thy Fa-a ther his Enemy an old Adulterer, a Swearer, a wicked oppofite to God; and perhaps thou nourifl eft upChildren' to he Enemies to God; thou nourifheft and breedeff up a company of Brats to be Enemies to God thou breedePt them in thewaiesof finand wick ednefs, and fo there is a generation of Enemies againft God, Oh Brethren, that God would but flair your heartsand make you fal down before Him, and fee your felves guilty of fo great an enmity. Many be ready to excufe themfelves and others thus; He is no bodies Enemybut his c'wn, a good natured man, and ° am nobodies Enemy but my own Yes, betides thyown, thou art an Enemy to the Eternal God ; and thy wales bath been a way quitecontrary to the Eternal God, and this thouart guiltyof, and the Lord char- geth thee with it this day. I remember when Danielcomes tp13eAttasir, hecomes to him, and thinks

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