of Faith. t2.§ and thy Poffefon is but a Part Doff thoù think the Lord will ever remove thy Sins, and communicate himfelf to thee as an Hus- band, whofe Heart loves thy filthy Lufis and Comforts better than him? Pfal. xlra io, tr. 7.he _FriendJbip of the World is E -i mity with God. Ere ever ye can buy and ens joy the Pearl of Price, ye muff fell all other Things-for it. Matth. xiii. . Hence Da-a Zid, {Pal. lxxiii. 25. Whom have I in Heaveis but thee ? Canf thou be an honeft married Spoufe t Chrift,that haft thy five Husbands Rom. vii. I. No Marriage withChrift while the firft Husband livethi; not but that Saints have Idols, and, as they are in Part carnal, lull after thefe, but they allow not them-. (elves in there Luftings : Their Love toChrift is .greater than . their Love to Idols, and Chrift at laft gees the Throne : They are fometimes opprefi with Idols, but they do not heartily entertain them,vea, by Faith they daily fight with, and daily overcome the Workisi and mourn that ever they gave a wrong Look to any Idol: Nor do I fay, that this Sepa ration from the World is a Condition of our . Juftification : No, only the Lord, in all his Eleét, works this I)ifj ofition as he con- vinces of the Evil of Sin, fo loth he of the Evil of the World : And besaufe the Soul fees it cannot ferve two Wen., God and Mammon, hence is made willing' that Chrift part it9 mn
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