Burroughs - Houston-Packer Collection BX7233.B87 G67 1660

On the Excellency of the Soul. 314 one foot to do any thing,for the deliverance of your fouls from eternal wrath, without the work of God upon you; you had need take heed what you do, that you do not provoke this infinite God that bath you under his feet, that you are able to do nothing towards your falvation if bee withdraw himfelf from you. I appeal to you, fuppofe you did fo, depend upon any one man in the world, that your life lay at 'his mercy, and if bee fhould but (peak a word you were a dead man or wo- man, would you not when you come into his prefence come 'with fear, left you fhould difpleafe him ? would you fay, what do I care for him ? let him bee pleafed or not plea- fed , what is that to me ? you would not dare to do it : Now, !hall wee have lefs fear, becaufe bee with whom wee have to do is the Lord ? if we hid dependence upon any man in the world, as wee have upon God, wee would fear him : Now I fay, shall God have the lefs fear, becaufe hee is a God ? bee fhould have the more fear ; Fea, him , faith ChriP, that when bee bath gilled the bodÿ, can lihewife kill the foul ; Teri f fay into you, fear him ; Chris} puts an l fay upon that; and truly, that foul begins to bee in a way of falvation, that begins to have the fear of the great God to fall upon him. Molt people in the world they walk boldly,, and prefumppttuouflyan the prefence of God, as if God had nothing to do with then', and as if they had nothing to do with God. Alas ! thefe go on in the wales of death and de- ftru&ion : but thatfoul.that God bath a purpofe to fave, hee begins to reveal his glory to it, and to thine upon it, as bee did upon Saul, when.hee did mine from Heaven in a glori- ous manner, anddflopt hire in his way when het was rid'ng poll unto Hell and deftr }inn; bee cries to him, tam bee that thpt huß ganed,againfl, ! am bee that thou perfeÉu`el , then Saul falls down trem5'dnffi,'and faith, Lord, that wi.'t thou have mee to ,do ? as if. Saat should fay, Lord, I did not knoty thee, but I fee thee now to bee a great and a dread- ful God, I fee that I am in thy hands to fave or deftroy, as thou.pleafefi; and therefore Saul comes with a trembling R r 2 heart,

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