A Treati f e of the AfeEiions. 18 Get up the bottom, and fet that upon God,or it is nothing.[ There be three means to get up the bottom of thine affe - Means to cehons, and let them uponGod. get up the Firft. Be humbled after all thy turning unto God, this will boaom or the a&01. get up the bottom of thine affections to God. A wicked ons. man before he is turned unto God may be humbled ; as s, Ahab was humbled, and Iudu was humbled, and Pharaoh Be hum. too, and many other (inners they are humbled before ever after they have turned from their fins. When once they have thy turn. Li turned from their prophaneneffe, and their impieties, then Gooc °° they begin to think well of themfelves, now they are well, think they : indeed before ever they are turned, they may be humbled. Thus a drunkard and a whoremonger maybe humbled, thus a mocker and a prophane perfon may be humbled, their confciences may pull them by the throat as long as they live in thefe fins, and then their affections are ftirred exceedingly : they may weep, and figh, and groan, and tremble, and be afhamed of their doings they may be, humbled thus before they are turned : but when they are once turned from thefe f nnes, then they begin to be quiet and fecure, and to hope well Alas I alas ! the bottom is not up yet. But if thou wou Idit get up the bottom of thineaf- feftions, be humbled after all thy turnings to God. So it was with good Ephraim: Sorely after that I Was turned, 1 repented: and after that I Was in/irulled, I [mote upon my thigh, I Was afhamed, yea, even confounded, Jer.3 1.19. E- phraim was humbled after that he was turned. It was not before he was turned, but after he was turned, he repent- ed and was humbled. This got up the very bottom of his affef ions and all unto God. See how full of affections he was. Ile fmoteupon his thigh,he was in a holy rage at his own foul, he blufhed, he was afhamed, yea, he was even fmitten with confufion of face before God. All the bottom of his affections was up,hie zeal,hti forrow,hisihame,and the whole bottom of all came up then, becaufe he was thus humbled. x Secondly, Keep no clofe lull, no corruption in fecret unmor- Keep no M3, tified:
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