Application of the Point. -s here in the world without the fight of God, and fo (liálf nevei come to fee the face of God for good unto thee, certainly thy lulls wit colt thee deer : If a man were fet upon his lulls, fo as he mull certainly lode the fight of his eyes if he-would have his tufts ; As I remember Ambrofe tels of 1'hrlotimus) that had fuch a difeafe upon him through drinking and unclea- neffe,that the Phyfitians told him, That if he did not reforme,he would certainly bofe his eyes for it, when he heard this, his heart ïaldtwnen a- was fo fet upon his lufls(welfaith he)defperarely, fareael fight m'cum. then,as if he thould fay,rather then Ile bofe my Infix l'le lo ferny jght.: O Lord how many fuch defperate wretches are there amongft us.: Are there none this day, here before the Lord ? If there be any, the Lord of Heaven rebuke them, and fpeak unto their hearts ; this is thy condition, thou art let upon thy htfts,what thinkell thou now about this little ghnlps of heavens excellency, of the fight of God, what thinkeft thou.? either part with thy lulls, or loofe thy fight; what will thy anfwer be before God this day, if thou flualt afterthis,when thou hearefl that the fight of God is fo annexed to purity of heart: And as Heb; 12.14. the Apoflle in that known place of the Hebrews, Without huli- neffe ooman fkall fee God : I fay, If thou doll yet continue in any known finful way, that thy heart is fet upon any fuch belo- -vedY.uft, and that for all this thy heart ,cannotbe taken off from ir, this then is thy defperate refolution, Farewel pteafant fght,`faremel`the fight of GnSJ mfslfes, fie venter it, l'1e'ratber pleafe the fight of my eyes, and the lulls o fmine heart, then I will be partaker of that blejfed anddloriotu fight of God : O thy lufis wil coil thee dear, look to it therefore here iii this world, how do men live without God in the world, they have no fight of God, -von may fpeak of God, but certainely there is'a fight of God that cannot ftand with the Love of anyfin; and therefore though we cannot tel how to expreffe the difference between' the fight of God that one ha.h in this life, and another, yet the Scriptureis cleer, that wholoever wilks on in the way of fin, he knows not G od, t john 1.4.: He that faith I knob km ßnd keepeth not his Comtnandements d lyar, and the truth ú not
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