( 86 clore tuft unmorti. fled. Yid. v.za, zz. Confider God will fhamethee one day, if the bot. tom be not found. ti ATreatife of the Affettionte ed : As this is a means to get up all the bottom of our afed`Iions, and let them upon God, fo it is a fign too whe- ther we do fo or no. For when a man is willing to be fearcht, who may be was fufpeéled of Healing, if he be willing to be fearcht, to have his pockets, and his houle fearcht, and his coffers fearcht, and all his haunts fearcht ; Search me, (ayes he, I have it not : he that is willing thus to be fearcht, it is a fign he bath not floln it. So it was with the Pfal- mifl : for having fayd that his afFelfions were let upon God, and agai.nfl them that were againfl God : he bids God fearch him, and fee if he could finde that it was contrary. Search me, O God, and know my heart, or as fome tranflations have it, and try the ground or the bottom of my heart, fee if there be any way of wickedneffe in me, Pfal. t 39: 23,24. As if he had Paid : If I have any fecret corruption that I favour my felf in, I confeffe the bottom of mine affed`lions is rot- ten ; but I am willing to be fearcht ; Search me, O God, and try the ground, or the bottom of my heart, and fee if it be not fo as I profeffe it to be ; I fay, as this is a means, fo it is a fign too. A means it is to get up the bottom of the affiaions, and let them upon God. For as long as a man bath any fecret lull, any bottom corruption which he fa- vours himfelf in, he can never let the bottom of his affed`li- ons uponGod. Thirdly confider, God bbill/bame thee one day, if the bottom be not found; thou mayefl have good affe( lions for the while, and be held for a very gòod Chriflian,. and a for- ward Profeffour : but if thine affed4ions be not folid and found at the bottom, God will fhame thee. Though the Applelook never fo well, yet if it be not found at the core, at lafl it will'be manifefl. Though the Egge look never fo lovely, yet ifit be addle within, at lafl it fhall"appear. God will unmask thee one day, and make it appear thine atfedai- ons were never right at the bottom. This Dàvidufed as a means to.provoke him to get a föund heart at the bottom: Let my heart be found in thy flat toes, that l be not a/bamed. Pfal.
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