Chap. 24. An FxDfifinn sip.n the B,Aff JO B. Val* Y'vg doingevill. For as it is with A z-3Iot s Godly man,his firft wake- ing thoughts are withGod and Chriff or about his own foule, bowG -d may be hanoured, & how his fou'e iray be favech(Pf. 339 18.)0,1g-tr pr,certas are thy th,et.zhts ( that thoughts of thee) to ,,,e0 Gad, howgreat :4. the ;emote af r flow ! nAen'Tawake I amfial rittIo thee : that is, me th,gegiger and meditatiqns are vith thee aa fox as ever Iawake-; here's, the 'diligence ofthe foule after God . fo the wicked man when he awakes-he is IHI with fin ; And if hecannot awake naturallyboneenough to fin, he will- force himfelfe to awake : And fo he may be laid to awake to tin,, before he is-awake ; foras fame nurfe up- and feed their flepe . when they area little awakned like the fluggirdoet a little ber, yet a littlefheep ; fo others offers violence to,, or break their fleepe, that is, as the text faith, they rsfe betimes, even before the duall time ofriling, that they may get a prey. It is nowonder,if they whoDicke not 'at breaking the laws of God; break&Ira-the 'awes oftheir own Diligence is good about that which is good ; it is good to be zealouflyaffeded alwayes in a good matter, but veil and 'dili- gence rnifplaced , how evill are they ! it is better to creep in a- good waysthento run in a-wrong way Even idlenes is-better then fuch diligence ; yet they who mifplace their zeale and diligence, are commonly more in both th 'n they who race them right,and: they who are in a falle way,make more halt then they who are in a true.The Scripture notes the extream Intenfenes of the builders- , of Babel upon their worke. And that's the ftraine ofmots men- in fuch work as-theirs was, the building ofa Babel, or in doing: that, which will be but a monument of their own pride and fally,, or oftheir rebellionagtinft and contempt of God. (Gen i i. This they begin to doe, andnow nothing trill be rifirained from them which they have imagined to doe; if they have but a mind to it they will doe it, let it coil what it will,neither difficulty nor dan, get fhall refiraine them S-ee alto how Induftrious the ten Tribes- were in .their Idolatrous tvorfhip which lerab,am had let up,. (a Kinp s z. 3o. ) And this- thing became a fin; for the peoyle, went to rvor,Gip before the one even untoDan; that is, they went a great-ware, to worfhip ; for howfoever yeroboarn pretended the' cafe and accommodationof the people in lettingup thofe Calves (per.28, ) It is too muchfor you to keu? to yeraraim 5 Behold thy, Gabs
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