S. Put on the zvo)le o God. life birch -right of its own Denifons, not Strangers. He is with- outGod in the world, he can claim no more prote ion from God, then an our- iaw'd fubjeel from his Prince ; If any tnif- chiet befalls him, the mends is ii-'ehivown,hands, whereas God hath his hedge offpecial providence about his Saints, and tt,e de- vil-, though his fpire be molt at them, dares not come upon Gods ground to touch any of them, without particular leave NoN what a deplored condition is that, wherein a foule is left to the wide world, in the mid ft of legions of tufts and devils, tobe rent .and tonne like a filly hare among a pack of hounds, and no God to call them off? Lea God leave a people, though never fo war- like, prefently they lofe their wits, cannot finde their hands ; A company of children or wourded men may rife up, and chafe them out of theirfenced Cities, becaufe God'is not with them ; which made Caleb and 703',313 pacific the `mutinous Ifraelites at the tidings of giants and walled cities with this ; 'They ore bread for 16e, their defence it departed from them. How much more mutt that foule be as bread to Satan, that bath no defence fiom the Almighty? Take men of the greateff parts, natural or acquired accompliflaments, who only want an union with Chrift, and renewing grace fromChrift : 0what fooles cloth the devil make of them, trading them at his pleafure, fome to one tuff, fome to another ; the proudell of them all is Have to one or other,thcugh- i it be to the ruiningof body and foul for ever, Where lies cue myflery, that men of fuch parts and wifdom, should debafe 6ml-elves to fuch drudgerywork of hell ? even here, they are in a {tate of alienation fromGod, and no more able of them- felves to break the devils prifon, then a flaveeto inn from his chain. Secondly, the Chriftleffe irate is a flare of ignorance, and 2. filch mutt needs be naked and unarm'd. Pe that cannot fee his enemie, how can he ward off the blow he fends One feeing Prophet leads a whole army of blinde men whither he pleafeth, The imperfect knowledge Saints have here. is Sarans advantage againft them, he often takes them on the blinde fide, how eafily then may he with a parcel of good words carry the blinde foule out of his way, who knower not a ftep of the right ? Now that the Chriflieffeflate is a flare of ignorance, See Eph. 5. 8. Te were fometimes dark:rere, ban nay are ye leiht in IN Lard. Ye were ,
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