340 .Enmity, Slavery,CKrfs. 3.Hnmiry: q Rum.8.7. o Roma. zg. p Pro. 4.Slavery. g.Curfes. z I{rn.44o M1l.s. 4 Pra1.6g.12.. Ion ala t. difclaimes all communionwith them, hewill not acknow- ledge them. 3. It is an elateofettrnity,the carnalmindis °enmity againff Cod ; man oppofeth God and God oppofeth man, cor- rupt men are ° haters of' God, they hate the very Being of God, and with there were no God; they hate him in his attributes; becaufe he is a wife God, and beholds all their impieties; becaufe he is a holy God and abhorres their un- godlineffe; becaufe he is a tuft God, threatning deftrueti.. on to their wayes; becaufe he is a powerfull God, able to dafh them in peeees as a Potters vefldll with a rod ofy- ron : they hate him in his Ordinances, in his :Minifiers, in his Servants, in all that beare his Image of holineffe and true rightcoufnefi'e, and God hates them in their qua- lities, in their fervices, in their prayeis, their be Sacrifice is a loathfome carkaffe inGods noftrils,avery P abomination before the Lord. 4. It is an &late ofLavery to Satan, to the world, to corruption, he that is molt finfull is theveryeít (lave in the world, as many Tufts fo many Lords and Matters, yea cru- ell tyrants over him, leading him captive at the will of Satan. Peters being fettered in Herod; prifon ; feremiés lying in the Dungeon ; Ifraels fervitude under Pharaoh.;, and the fyptians being led captive by the AIfyrians, na- ked and bare-foot to the reproach of e./Egypt, is but a (lender fhadow and weake reprefentation of this thral- dome. 5. It is an &late of curfes; the whole pot was a pot of death, where the evill herbe was, all is a pot ofdeath, a. pot of curfes, where fin rules, very bleflings are turned into curfes, to them that turne not from their impieties, the q table is a fnare, and what Should have bin mans wel- fare becomes his ruine, all the meanes of grace arc per- verted, all the labours. of Gods Minifters fruflrated. 7o_ nabs being in the {hip difabled the Marriners to bring the Ship unto the {bore the dominion of fin in the foule difables the Minifter to bring it to the haven of peace, we row in vaine, all our labour is loft, if you forfake not,
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