The deceitficlnefje of Mans heart, 373 may carty thee head -long into the filthy and myrie lea of thine own flefhlineffe, there to wallow and tumble as before thy cleanfing:God bath threatned, and bee will bee as good as his word, to fpue our thee luke -warme out of his mouth. Think not now eve1,3. rs. that God will bee like thee, that as thou eateft up thy vomit, fo he will his, and fuller thee, after thou art once vomited to come into his ftomack againe. Nay , becaufe hee faw thou waft fuch a doge that thou wouldif returne to thy fn, which thou hadft vemiced,therefore hath he Cpued thee out for ever; to teach thee by his example in fpuing thee ouc,how thou fhouldit have fpued thy fin out, namely with out a delire of ever returning to it againe, as the Ifraelites to their forfaken Egypt. Such Ifraelites, that after their departure from Egypt , carry yet a difpofition of returning; in the wildernes mutt they die, into Gods reft never n,uft they enter. O mite rabic cafe of the hypocrite,whîch is Co defperate,and irremediable ! The fall ofthe Candy houle, faith our Saviour, is great. Herein great, becaufe fo quafhed Matth,7.z7. in fbivers, that it cannot be reared up againe , and the curie of God is fuch upon it, being fallen, that like Jericho and Ierafalem it is irre- edifiable. With to!h.6. 26. my rrhole heart have I fought thee, faith David, [Ufa Pfa1.ia9,10. mee not to zvander from thy Comrlandements. Infin ea- ting thereby , that fuch as doe not feeke God with their whole heart, that is in fngleneffe ofheartun- fainedly,God will fuller Chem to wander in crooked blinde wayes,and that fearefully and irreturneably. To the like purpofe is that in the fame Pfalme : Let Pfa1.u9.so. my heart be upright in thy flat toes, that I may never be B b 3. afhamed
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