yr ()rounds of not cleaving to Chri¡t. it that comes in Gods name, but, firtt, from the dominion and fulnefíe of corruption ? A deformed face pleafeth it fife in a deceitful! giafle ; the malefaetor rejoyceth to heare of a cor- rupt fudge ; fume ditèafed flomacks delire to feed on afhes ; a rotten heart and a rotten d aline are very futable. Ahab having ejold himjelfe to commit rwickedneff '., was very attentive to the falfe Prophets : Men (faith our Saviouur) t love dark- liege rathen then light, becauf e their deeds are evil?. fie that áoth evili heal) the light, neither commetb he to the i ht, Leff hid deeds fbou'd be reproved : job faith of Theeves, g 'Joe nrorning is to them a the fhaúore of death ; if one know the -m, the_y,are in the terrors of the fha,,o4, of death. To men that rob God by. their impieties, the morning, the truth which fhineth forth like the h Morning Star, is as the fhadow of death ; if one know them, if the Mi- nitcer detc& and lay open their fin, their prophane and evill eftate, it is a great terror to them, it troubles them, as the liar did i Herod and the men of jeru, a. em. Man can never take pleafùre in that fulnefíe of light which filineth from Chrift Jefits, untill he bath emptied himfelfe of the fulnefíe of his corruptions. Secondly, from the want of laver to the truth : The woman that wants love to her husband, readily prof i- tutes her Oft to firangers : The foule that loves not Chrift and his truth, cloth eal:ly open it Celle to corrupt and dec it full do&rines ; brcaufe they k received not the love of t;;e truth that they might be raved for this cau;e,f.ith the Aporde, God Pal fend themirong deiu6o'is, that they fkould beleeze a lyc. Corrupt and carnali d. &rive is very welcome where the love: of the truth is wanting ; he that receives not the truth into his af- fe &ion, as well as into his judgement, mil? foon bedrawne from it. Linder the Law it was uril.tll foi a man t at married a I woman, if he loved her not, to give her a bill of divorce- ñient, and fend her out of his houle:: It is common with men under the Gofpell, who, in r:gard of externall cove - nanrandprofeflion,are married to the truth; yet afterwards through the want of love, they give the truth a bill of di vorce, and become ftrangers to it : It is love to the truth that caufeth man to continue coma. n: with it : in Love it, and you Pail never depart from it; Thirdly, from a desire of no G a.. velty; Five grcu1is he reos. Se e I Kings e24 . f loh 3..9,zo g lob 24.17. b -z Pets 1.1s. i Matth. :.a. 2. k a Thera 93 1o. 1 T9eut.o,4.i. m Cazrt-8:15;7 3
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