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an
the
Nature
of
God.
God
higher
in
majéfly"and
glory, than
all creatures in
the
world
are.Suppofe you
were
to come
to
a
King
that
had
all
the glory and honour
put
upon+him
that
ever any
creature
had
in
this
world, with what
fear
and
trembling would
we
come before
fuch
a Majedy
as
this
i,? but
if
thou hall
not
come
with further
trembling and fear before
God
when thou
cameo
into
his
pretence,
if
thou hall
not
come
with
higher
thoughts
of
that
God
that
thou
hall
to
deal
withal!
(I
fay ) thou haft
nor
glorified
God
as
"a
God;
no
marvel though people are fo flight andvain in
the
duties
of
Gods worlhip, becaufe they do
not
know
what
a
God hee
is
that,,they
have to
do
with
all.
Ufe
a.
This
ilieweth
you
the dreadful evil there
is
in
fin, why
?
becaufe
it
is
againd
fuck, a
God
as
this
God
is
doll
thou
know whom
it
is
that
thou finnefl againd
?
Oh thou
firmer
!
doff thou know whom
it
is
thou tlriketl
at
?
it
is this infinite
God that
is
thus
prefented
to
you,
Whole
Name
alone
is
ex-
cellent,
and
whofe
glary,
,
is above
the
Earth
and Heavens.
Know (inner,
and the
Lord fmite
this upon
thy heart,
thou
that
art
a
wicked and ungodly man
all the
daies
of
thy
life,
thou
hail done nothing
elfe but
fought
againd this
God,
this infinite and
glorious
God
thou haft
been
an
enemy
to
all
the
daies
of
thy life, and
every time thou
"re-
newel!
thy
fins
,:thou
doll do nothing elfe
but
firike
at
this infinite£God; and provoked
the wrath òf'
this
infinite
deity .againdthy
foul
and
body; and
darePt
thou
land
out
agaiñd
this
God
"?
wilt
thou
put
it
to
the
trial, to
fee
whe-
ther that God that
thou
finned againd
bee
fuch
a
God
as
this
is
?
wilt
thou put
it
tackle
mat,
that
God f íould fet
thee
apart
to
make
rhee'-an objeR
upon
whom
to exer-
cífe all
that
infinite
power
that
there
is
in
God,
to
bring
evil,
and
miife,ry,-
and
torments
upon
thee for thy
fin
?
this
is
the cafe
of
all
defperare
!inners
that
do
go on in
a
defperate
way
offir_
the,
language
of
their
fin
is
this,
I
do hear muchfpoketr concerning
the
:greatríefs,
and
ex-
celiencyiand
glory
of
God, Ile
try and venture,
Ilepur
it-to the
expexinient,
whether-,
God
bee
WI
a
God
or no
as