244 Singer, fie$Cy. f,idof David that he had many cloathes,yet he got no heate : IThus carnall men have all theordinances of God, all meaner towarm:. their foules, and yet they continuecold, as adead 'body under many cloathes ;: theymay performe manyreligi- ous duties, and yet have no heate, nowarmth in them ; At the bell they are but like Ephrairns cake halfe baked,like luke- warmemeat,. Itch as is attentive to the flornacke, and there- fare Chrift threatens to ÿetr themout ofhis mouth:; they have nothingof the Spirit of God within them, whofe working is likened unto fire, making men fervent in Prayer, causing their hearts to blewwithin them in hearing, as theheartso the two Difciplesdid ; this fire, this heavenly beate is wan- ting, and therefore all their fervice is butas a facrifice without fire, ofao ofi of noacceptance with the Lord. 4 Services ten. 4. Their fervices, if youobferve their eni, are arrowes le- ding to cafe yelled to a to ar marke ; A. dead man cannot lift himfelfe up ends. from the earth ; A. man without Chrift, and empty of fpiri tuall life, cannot looke abovehimfelfe andhis owne fleíh in any thinghe doth The effé ever fuites with thecaufe;. the thorncannot beare figges, the fruit is anfwerable totthe na- ture oftheTree ; He that hath nothing ofGod inhim can-. not intend God. in.his undertaking ; he that is alienated-from the life ofGod,. cannot worke for God. That (faith-our Savi- our), Whieh, is of the fie$ isfie$, fle`hly difpofed, intending the flefh, and nothing elfe, doing all for himfelfe feeking hie ovine things, andnot the things whichare Cbrills ; his owne profit, his owne eafe, his owne applaufe ;. he ferves not the Lord7efuei bast hie owne belly, as Saint Paulftìeakes ; arrdthus theoriginall, the nature, adjunf4, and end of a carnali mans works demotaflrate them,to bedead' works,of no.cfleemwith God,how glorious foever in theeyes ofmen. Thegl brq of As Chrift' is the Author and worker-ofSpirituall life, fothe (pirituill life glary and thepraife of all grace and holinefi'e, of the whole due to,Chritt. fpirituall. life of Chriftians is tobe attributedunto Chrift Je- Ira 9. s. fus ; Chriftis the everlafling Fat/xr,from whom wehave our i new birth; the high, and heavenly Workman, fromwhomwe ,t Eph.,.to, ' have our fpirituall being and new' Creation; the lifeby whom weareyuickcned ;theSun by: whom wearceílightened;the 7hjfiria:
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