tr¿rvwje SAINTS. 239 allovee(t ; thou alloweit of the (triNef'4 Servants of (ßód ; but if thou condemner{ thy felfe now, and thy Çonfcience can tell thee, J but J doe not fet my (elfe to be as they are. J can be look my fèlte ; peore creature, thy allowings and approv- ings will ritè up in Judgement againft thee; fo that this is a poore thing too ; approving of gaodnefl'e may be in a Per fecutor ; Saint Paul tels us that the Jewcs did allow of his Kcliaion ; uard yet they would net teare prefecnting of him, Ad 24. a5. nay, Chrifls perfècutors they allowed of all goodaefle, they profeefed fo much at lea ft ; for a good worke we tone thee not; therefore approbation cannot be the life of the Minde neither. Thirdly, thinking of God and of the Word, that is not the life of the mincie ; and yet many men hang upon this too, test they thinke of God, and of his vv ayes, and of their latter end. Truc fume are fo graccleflè, that they come not thus farce ; God is hardly in all their thoughts, Plata o.4. But though a man doe thinke of G -d, and of heaven and of Gods Lanes, indeed its a great mercy of God ; it may doe i s mans world of good, and it did David; this made him re- turn into the way wherefoever he went. J thought ape my Ts/inosrs, Pi l.t t 9.59 moyt, emei turfed or feet uto ty et tf this be all, this is no argument of life. The wicked ¡ewes, Chrift confeflèi they thought upon God and upon the Scriptures,nay more, they thought to have eternall life in them; Search thsSeriptures, fir in them ye think ye hove eta- nab Ile .Joh..39. This is fo farce from being an Aft of lrfe,as that if a man live to fin for all that, aggravates it may be la The drunkard when he goes to the thinks of the word of God, that fayes a drunkard fh <1l not inherit Gods King4ome, and yet he will goe though ; a lyer when he lyes, it may be he thinks at the fame tine, of the word of God, that }ayes the devill is a lyer, and lyers ¢call lie in the lake thatbornes with fire : nd brimttone. Fourthly, ftudying is not the 14 of the Mimic ; this is that which bewitches many Miuilters; they Italy all the I day 3. 4.
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