a CHRIST'S alarm never fo unknowne, yet if God know it, it is as bad and worfe then if all the world knew it ; for all the world (hall know it one day, God will lighten all things that are hid in dark- neffe, and will make manifeli the fectet counfailes of mens hearts ; then ¡hall every man kcal praife of God, s Cor.4.i. that is, whofóver have been godly, God will bring all their godlineffe forth, and every one of them (hall have praife of God ; this (hall be an honour to them before all the world : fo if a man have been cvill, then God will produce all his naughty courlcs forth, then (hall he have titanic from God, God will fhame him before all the World. There is nothing now covered that (hall not then be revealed, nothing hid that (hall not then be laid open ; what a Chame then will this be for thee, that thou ev hich haft gone fo many }Tares for an honed man, and may be haft been lime body here in this world, when all the Saints (hall fie thee (landing as a wretch, as a hell -hound as a Lame of the Divell, on Chills left hand ? What a Chame will it be if we that are now carpel+ Preachers, if any of us (hall then be found among he goats ? vs bat a Chame to any of you, that would count it a fore dil= grace to be called a wicked nian, to be led forth with evrll doers, and {holed among the damned? well then, if Gods feting of mens l'noes be (uch a kind of tieing as this is, no marvell it woike fo effectually on them that are of God. Fifthly, another argument may be taken from our dil o(i- tion ; our difpofition is fuch, that we cannot abide that our wick'edneffes fhould be lien of any body that we know can't abide them ; Which among us when we pray and have bale roving though-a, would not be ashamed that a man should fee our thoughts rove ? which of us_that are untitled and dead - hearted, would nct blush that men had a catérent to fee how dead he fits at a Sermon, and how livid at a Sacrament, how dead in other of Gods Ordinances; what bale and impure thoughts fómetime doe arise in his mind ; nice did thinke that any man fhould fee them, he would not hardly be able to (hew bis face among men. Let but anAdulcerer that is naught
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