Addre'elnent toClirifE. 343 him one ftcp farther from God and Heaven, and brings him one flep nearer to Satan and damnation, lee would never pleafe himfelfe in this eftate ; inconfideration makes way to. all evill : the Lord having mentioned the great impieties of T¡rael, layeth downe this as the ground'ther- of, They are % a Nation (faith the Lord) void of coun- fell, neither is there any underJanding in them, O that they Were wife, that they underflood this, that they would confider . their latter end ; they doe not confider haw they are in the gall of bitterneffe and in the bond of iniquity, in the thraldome ofSatan under the wrath of' God , in the Bate of damnation, fuLjea to a thoufand eaf,lefle and endleffe woes and miferìes, did men confider this, they would awake out of their (leepe and. Band up from the dead, thát Chrift might give them light : They would with David, confider their waie,, y and turne unto the tefßi- monies of the Lord, S, Addreffe your felves to Chrift by faithfìall and fer- x Dem.; t,29. yPfal,t 19,60, Addreffe to vent `Prayer ; the Gibeonites rent to 'oJhua and he refcu Chrift by pray- er. ed them from the Amoritifh Princes. We muft fend by /oily t© 6. prayer to Chrift, to refcue us from the Prince of darke- node ; the woman of Shunem came to the Prophet, oft her felfe downe, tooke hold of his feet, would not let him goe, and lace went with her and raifed' her dead child : thus moil wecome to Chrift, caft our felves downe, humble our felves under the hand ofChrift,lay hold onChrift, and never let him goe, that he may raife usfrom the death offin to the lifeofgrace. t Kin.p. CH-AP.
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