cbap, 3 6. ifs %a Ëxpefitio;v pan the AA of Jos.. Vert; 2 t, 3 31 tr. ñ 'faith, I will deliver him or them úp into the hands of their the power of their lulls.'( Pfal. 81. i a. ) 'fraei wou.'d s =se o; ze (f th the Lord ) they wereooy,they had other lovers,. have the world, they .chofe fin, rather than God, and to go a t,h,,rtr_ *, are ohe creature,rather than keep dole to him. What the ? Igave them up totheir own hearts lulls. As if the Lord had lid) Pray take your cootie, you that love your own in- ventions, take your filtof thereyou that love and would havedye va- nities of the world, take yourfill of them. The LordBoth not threa- ten them with famine and pehilence, no nor with hell, but he threatens them with fin, and leaves them to the power of iniqui- ty. Thus he gave up the old Gen'ile Romans to vile affefions, ( Rom. I. a6, 28. ) Let them be vittorictas, let them be rich, let them fubdueall Nations under their iron hands, let Ronne be the Head and Md refìe of the world, and command all people,let all hoop to their l,owr .~, but faith God , fwill give themup to vile affittions, they Mall be bafely- Idclatrouo, and bafely wanton, and bafely glurtonoug, and bafely d: unken, and bafely ambitious , and bafely enviouo:Aa th. y were above all people of the world in out- ward glory and power,fo God left them under the power of their lutes, and gave them uyr to glut thetnfelves with wickednefs ; He gave themup to a reprobate miede, to do things that arc not conve- rsant,. 'Tis the motl terrible'of all tfllictionc, when God-makes a fin an afflitïon, and gives men up to hardnefsof heart, to pride, to a fpirir of loofnefs and waptonnefs ; here is a mifchief indeed, themifchief of fin. Laftly, ©bferve Our Avoydance of, or efcape from the {restte l a Tian in the world, will not bear us out in the choyceof any snigasuy. We taaáy underhand and profecute this poynt two wayes. Firh, as togutIt. It wiq no way excuCe us before God, to fay,I forbore to (10 duty when commanded by God, I did evill becaufe commanded by man, not out of any dt(hke of my duty, or likingof iniquity, but only to avoyd thole afiôIions, which - faw inevitably falling upon mein care I had either done the one, or not done the other. Thisplea will not hold before God, for U u z any
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