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n

of

the

`

Point,

439

not in

him.

As

if the

Holy

Choft

thçuld

la

here,

.7 here

i;

fo

moth

in

the

fight

of

Cod, as

t

hnt

it

is

impo

ible

it

can

f

and with

thcwayes.offn.

Secondly,

1f

it

be

fuck

a

blefedneffe

to

fee God,

then

how

vild

arc

they

that

take no

delight

at

all in

feeing

of

him, and

would

rather not

fee him

then

fee

him

:

This

is

the curfed

dif

ooftion of

the hearts of

many

men,

yea

generally

of

all

that

ave

guilty

confciences, I

fay

all

men

and women

that

have

gril

y

consciences, are

brought

CO.

this

through the

guilt

of

their consciences,

that they had

rather not.

fee

God

then

fee

him,6 what

a

pale

art

thou in, what halt thou

brought

thy

Pelf

to-

?

O

miCerable

creature,

what

is

there

in

thy luits

that

can

fo

countervail

this, the

Joffe

of the

fight

of

God,

and

bring

thee

to

fuch

a

condition

as

thou dolt

&fire

never to

fee

th

fice

ofGod

:

Thou

accounref&

it not

a

mif

ry

not

to

fee

Gad,

but thy happinef

e

;

O

curfed

dift

ofition

indeed,

you

would

fay a

child

were

very

defperately wicked

if

he

should

fay

to

i s

father

that bagar him, or the mother

that

bare

him,I

would

I

might never

fee your face,

but

this doth every ungodly man

fay,

ô

that

I

might never

fee thy face

;you will

fay, is

there

any

fo

vild

as

uo

fay

fo

?

Certainly it

is

the Language

of

your

acli-

ens,

and

we

read

in

the

z

of

fob

14,

concerning the

defcrip-

tion

of the wicked

man thus;7-herefore

:hey fay unto

God

deyart

from

Its,

for

we

defire not

the

k,

owled

g

of thy

wayes :

Why

?

We

cannot hear

men

in

their

Language

lay

fo,. and

I do not

think.

that

Job did hear

men

fay fo,

but

this

was

the. Language

of

their ae.ions. They fzy

lento

God

depart

from its,

we

dejire

not

the

knowledge

of

thy

wayes :

For

indeed

the

fight

of

Jod

i

ga-

ges

_he

foul

to

duty;

And

the

truth

is,

for

a'

man

to

have

a

light

of

God

and

yet

to

refùlve

to

continue

in his

fin,thefe two

1

things

are

incompatible

one

with anorher,and

therefore wicked'.

men

rather then they

would

lode

their

Was,

away

with

h_Ai

-';

teile,

they care

not

to

fee

God,

Thirdly,

What

a

mi{ery

are

thole

in

that

fhall'have

the

(iglu

of od

robe their greaten

mifry,

and

to

be

a

curie

tyro

them,

to be

dreadfulrothem,

certainyi

their

in

hath

brouttht

them

co anevil.cotrdition

indeed,

yet

t'tiis

is the.

Rate

of

ma-

vim