The Evil ofEvils) Or the foholy, to hate thofe fins you love, and not fo juq, to be fo fevere againfi fin as he is is not in your hearts ? lt is impoUible for any Creature to love any thing, and yet not wirn that another did not hate it fo much as he doth. Well, if there be this in thee, that thow loveít filch a fin, that thou couldefi with God did not hate it fomuch as he ctoth, that he were not fo jurt, holy, and fevere againq fin as he is 5 this is towifh in thy heart that God were noGod at al, that the Life of God, and Being of God were gone : fo that thy heart in this finful frame and difpofition of it, it is no other but to firike at the very Being of' God : For it is the work of the heart wi!hing that God were not God, for ifhe did not ( 2S I told you) hate fmas much as, he doth, he could not be a Cod at ah Now this is plain, and there is fcarce anyone bofinn, but is guiltyof this, fcarce any of you, but may lay your hand uponyour hearts and fay, This breaft of mine is guilty ofthis, that when my heart is Cet-unon any evil way) I could wifh that God were not foholy to hate this i had rather God thould likeofthis : I hear of Cods ju',ice, but cloth not my heart rife againft Gods Jnítice ? and I could with that God were not fo juff as he is : Certainly there is this in fome degree or other therfore charge your hearts with this .5 and know, That fo far as you have been guilty of this, youhave {-truck at the beingofGod and this horrible wickednefs is charged upon you, That your hearts havebeen let fo far upon fin, that youcould withGod had not been God ra- ther
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