1 206 Cureoffelf-admiration; hunger and thirst after Gods gifts and graces, he is to tranf ported with the thought of his owne. fuflnef :: Self-ad- miration excludes min from all the wayes of communion_ i Pro J.p36,7. ; betweene God and his children , therefore i truly in the Lord (faith the Wife-man) and lean, not to thine -orone an.- der1hnding, in a'l thy Waye.c acknowledge him, be not Wife in thine owne eyes, feare the Lord and depart flow evil! imply- ing that as long as a man leases to his owne wifdomne, and bath himflfe in admiration, he can neither truly in God, nor humbly acknowledge God, nor truly fare God, nor depart from evil!, but continues in the flare of a to- tall and uncomfortable alienation and efirangement from God, 6. Shame and 6 Self:admiration is attended with ./home and confusion confulion: At /0 ; Goliah much adnired himf, lf, his owne ftature and armour, yet was thimefully overthrown, in the bat- i Sam.. :7. tie,' the Sword in which- he gloried cut off his head: God often turnes the in'ltrument and matter of mans pride, in- to the in!trument and matter of mins fb-ame. Ne6uchad- ;netar magnified hirnfelfe above meafurein his Palace,which D3s.4.;o,; r. he had built, but fron thence he was driven to dwelland eat graffe ain ng the, beafts ; the Lord will make the con - dition ofproad people m°ft- bate and contemptible 'hee that, magnifies himflfs above men is unfit for the fuciety ofmen; beafts a tadbruti,hcreatures are the6rteft contorts' for ambitious felf-admirers. CureoffelLad- Looke then, ô" man, upon the bafeneflfì and uncleannes miraz`on' of thy Originali, upon the abfence ofall fpirituall good,upon thepretence and plenitude of all- iìn, upon thy imbondage ment untoSatan,upon thy inthralment unto the creature ,upon. thy f rvitudeunder in-my noif rmlu`_ts,u 0n the rottennes and deceirfuines.ofthy heart, upon the loathfonanes ofthy wayes, upon the i nperfe}ionofthybelt fervices, upon the: ftrL ac-: count which thl.a m-n'i matte for all thy abilities; and be no more a felfad nirer, hit a 1.1f :hani r, a felf condem- ner, a hi nbler of thy file, and an admirer of God and: Chrift Jefas, for all thy freely received favours. CHAP,_
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