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166

Goy

Xemifsion.

thy

molten

Images

of

Gold, thou

(halt

cuff

theme

away

a-s

a

men-.

ßrwwor

Cloth

;

and

jbntlt

fig

unto

it,

get

the

hence

;

the

fins

they

before, lived

in

was

Idolatry,

and

their

hearts were

much

taken

with

their

brave

Images over -laid with

Silver and

Gold

;

but when

they heard the

voice behind them

they

look

'd

upon thofe

things

they

fo

much

delighted

in,

that were

fo brave

in

their

eyes

before,

but

as

menftruous clothes

,

which are the moll filthieft things that

can

be

, and

call

them

away

as

filthy

rags, with

indignation,

Paying,

get thee hence

;

as

one.that takes

a

rag

in his

band,

and looks

on it

and

fees

it

all

filthy

and

defiled, prefently

.he

throws

it away

with abo-

mination,

and

lays, get thee hence

;

fo

this

is

the

call

of

God,

when

the

Soul

hears

behind

it

a

fecret

voice

that many

hear

nor,

it

may he, many thoufands

hear

the

outward

voice

of

the

Minifter

telling

them

of

the

evil

of

fn

,

and

their

abo-

minations,

and

a

poor

Servant,

or

a

poor

Youth that

ftands

in the midft

of

the

crowd,

he

hears

a

voice behind

him

that

others

do

not,

a

fecret

voice (befides

the general

voice)

which

is a

prevailing

voice,

that

the

foul

falls

down

and

yields

prefently

before he goes out

of

the

Church ,

fays,

Lord

this

day

thou

haft

convinc'd

me

of

the

evil

of

fin,

and

thou

haft

this

day

(hewed

me

the way

of

life

and

falvation, Lord

I

come

unto thee

;

though

he

faw

nothing,

and

though

no bo-

dy

elfe

hear that voice, yet

there

is

a

fecret

voice

of God

unto the

foul

;

though

he Rand in

the

midft

of

the crowd

and

no body

elfe

hear

it,

yet

at

that

infant

pardon

of

fin

came to

that

foul,

and reconciliation

by

Jefus

Chrift

:

now

when

this conies

into the

foul,

he

will not let

fuch and fuch

fins be

there

any

longer,

but

fays, Get

you hence,

I

will

have

no

more

to

do

with

faech

and

fuch

beloved

luf

s

and

Idols

that

I

fet

my

heart

upon,

Get

thee hence

;

and thofe men

that

God

calls

to

himfelf, certainly

when

they hear

this voice

behind

them

,

though they now plead for

Idolatry

and

Superftirion

,

and

why

Mould

not

we

do

as

our forefathers

did

?

yet

if

once they come to

hear

this

fecret

voice

of

God

, and

God

Thew

them

the way

of

his

Worfhip

in

the

purity

and beau-

ty

of

it,

they

will

fay, get thee hence, to thofe things

as

vile

things, get ye

hence,

I

will have

no

more

to do

with

you

;