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On
the
Nature of
God.
weakneffes
in the
foul
,
yet
fuch
a
foul
doth never bound
its
fe
f
in
working
after God.
I
indeed
heretofore have
:et
out
my
heart
tä
the creature,but
now
I
would
fain,if
I
could,
let
out
my
heart infinitely
after
God
:
Why
?
For
I
fee
an
infinite
diflance
between the
good there
is
in the
creature,
and the good there is
in God
;
certainly
where this
is,there
is
grace
,
and this
one note
were enough to difcern the
truth
of
grace
in the heart
:
If
the
fight
of
God
have
wrought this
, that
whereas
heretofore
thy
heart
bath
been
let
out after
fuch
and
fuch
creature-
comforts
,
now thou
doll
defire,
if
it
were poffible,
to
let
out
thy heart infinitely
after
God;
here
is
the
work
of
grace, and
in
this thou goeft
beyond
any hypocrite
:
Oh
keep this conflant
in
thy
foul,
this
is
the efpecial fan&ifying
of Gods
Name in
all our
wayes
;
when wee fee
that
God
gives us
leave to
let out
our hearts towards
the
creature
in
fome
meafure, then
there
is
a
great deal of
danger,
that
wee
fhould
have our
hearts
flick
in
the
creature,and that
we fhould
not
have
that
difproporcion in
the
letting
out of our hearts to
the creature,
and toGod,as
ought
to
bee
:
And
this
is
the
ground
of
all
Idolatry in the world
,
when men have feen fome excel-
lency
in
the creature , they have been taken
with
it,
and
there
have
Ruck
, and
have
not been carried from
the crea-
ture to
God.
And
that
is
Heathens
Idolatry,
when they
fee
an excellency in
the Sun,
they think
that
is
God
:
So
Chri-
flians
Idolatry
may
-bee
in
this, If
there bee any
creature
-
comfort
that
thy
heart
clofes withal}
, and
there
thou
daft
flick,
and
thy
heart
is
not carried to
God, yea,
is
not
carried
to God
in
fuch a
difproporcion
as
there
is
between
him
and
the creature
;
I
fay,
fo
far
as
thou wanteft
that
that
thou art
capable
of in
this
kinde
, fo
far thou
art
guilty
of Idolatry.
Oh that this one note might
flick
upon us,
i
here is
none
like
woo thee,
O Lord
:
Canti
thou
fay
this
out
of
the
upright
-
nefs
of
thy
foul,
as in the prefence
of God,
Lord
thou
that
knowefl all
things,
knoweut
that
though
I
have
a
vile heart
that
is
let
out after the creatures more
than it
ought
to
bee,
yet
Lord thou
knowetithat
my
heartis
let
out
after
fro