60z Chap. 3 t. An Expoftion upon the Booke of J o a. Verf.2g, Secondly , They have a contrary pedegree and original!. Its lid ofCain, he w.t.r of the wickedone, that is, the devil; but Saints arc borne of God, he is their father. Thirdly, They are contrary in their courfe ; The Godly walke in the wayof Gods Commandements, in the narrowway ; the wicked walke in the way of their own hearts, in the broad way. Fourth'y , They are contrary not only as to their external courfe, but as to their internal motions their hopes and their fearer, their ¡oyes and their forrowes ( there are the motions of the feule) are as contrary as their natures are, or as the foure winds of heaven are Fifthly, and billy, They are contrary in their ends ; taking the end in a double notion. F,ri} As end imports our ayme and .defrgne ; A godly mans chicle ayme is the glory of God ; A wicked man aymes at him= felpe chiefeiy, or at (rife advancement in all he doth ;God ie net in all hie thcughti ( P;al. 10.4.) that is, not at all in his thoughts, e ther to mind his word as his rule, or his glory as his end. Secondly, They are contrary in their end, as end notes the upfhot and conclufion, of all. t_iarlte theperfetf man (faith Da. vid, P. (ai. 37. 37, 38.) andbehold the upright ;for the endofthat man is pesce. But the tranfgrefors (hall be deffroyed together , the endofthe ?Ticked/hall be cut (Jr ; that is, This (hall be their end ( and 'cis a fad one) they (ball be cut off and deílroyed. Now they who differ in all thefe refpeets, and are under a contrariety of nature, of pedegree, ofway, ofmotion, of end, how is it pofli- ble but there muff be enmity andhatred between them ? The one is light, the other darkneffe, now as the Apoftle argues it ( z Ces. 6, 14. ) what Communion hark light withdarkerfe ? No more bath righteoufneffe with unrighteoufneffe . What agreement hash the Temple Df rodwith Idols ? No more bath he that beleeveth with an Infidel. Thewicked are called Serpents, Wolves,Lyons, ttiele names arenot fpit out of a raylingmouth, or from a fplee- ni(h fpirir, they are not the evaporations of an angry man, but they are dit`Iates of the holy Spirit, and bellowed upon them by the molt wife God;, who .knowes unerringly how tocall every thing & perfon by aname, moll fìgnificative bothoftheir nature and temper.On the other hand the Godly arecalled by the fame Spirit ofGod, Sheep, Lambe, Doves. And there is not only a diffe-
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