Book IV. WICKED MEN DEAD IN SIN. VI. The Sea is very ,, fi! , fs, ;t ebbs and flows, and feems to be continually troubled: So the Ungodly are a1ways refiltfs in thelr Spirits, like wicked llaman, they never ceale Plotting againfi the Juft. Though they have very great Power, Riches, and Honor, yet becaufe Go ,'s Mordecai's will not bow down their Souls for them to go over, all Jeems., norhing to the:n; they have Riches, much G0ld and Silver, but not fatisfied ; they enjoy all the Delights and Pleafures the World can afford them, but yet are like the troubled Sea : Many times alfo their Confciences forely difquiet them. v\'bat Reil foever they may have, yet certainly they are conrinuany void of the true Peace ot God, and in this Senfe there is no Peace to th<Wicked, &c. Ija. lvii. 2 '· V I!. The Sea cominually cafieth forth Mire and Dirt: So the Ungodly never ceafe calling tonb their abominable Wickcdnefs. N F E R E N C E ~ I. f ET not the Saints fear the Ungodly: Wh1t though they fwell and ro rr : God bath "-J Jet Bounns to the•n : '!'be Wrath of M "" jha/1 praije tbee, and the Remainder of ·Wrath jhaltthou rejlrain, Pfa/. lxxvi. 10. I o more ·wrat h of Mon ihall he let cut, •no higherdhall thefe Seas fwell, than fhal! tend to the Glory of God ; the Over-pi m, ·thar•Wrarh that would indeed prove hurtful to the Godly, anJ to the Di!honor J the Almighty, rhe L ord will refhain. !I. Pray hard, that G<.d would keep the Doors and ~ars of thefc troublefome Seas fait, and prevent rh• Danger. I will yet for tlm be enqui'"d of by tbe lloufe of lfraelt1 .do it for them, Ezck. xxxvi. 37· 1. !'ray, that Gnd will keep the Sea of Man's Wrath within its limirt:d Bounds. 2. Pray, that God would not fuffer Satan to break forth t•Jo furiou(]y upon u>. If God d;,! not fet Bottnd.s to him, no Man could live quiet one Hour. 3· !hay, that God would fer Bounds to the Sea of Prophanenels. 4· And alfo that he would.fe t Bounds, and drive back the Sea of Error and falfc Dudrim"t &c. Ill. This nlOWS the wofuJ ·Condition of ungodly Men: They have no Peace, true Pence, whilft they live, and be fure ihall have ·none at Death. Peace is the P ortion only of the Lord's People : Great Peace have all they that love thy L aw, &c. Pjtil. ,cxix. J 65. 111j Peace I,gi-ve uuto you. 'WICKED MEN DEAD I N s I N. '!'he Hour is coming, and now is, when Jbe Dead foal/ hMr the Voice of the Son vf God, and they that bearJhall live, John v. 2 5. And you bath he quickened, who we1·e dead in 'J',·efpa.ffis and Sins, .&c. Epb. ii. 1. UN CONVERTED Men are dead, fpirituaily dead, they are as dead Men. Life is oppofed to Death, which is either the Privation of natural Life, becaufe of the Sep•ration of the Soul from the Body ; or the Prrvation of fpiritual and heavenly Life, becaule of the Separation of the· Soul from God through Sin. And this is reoily true, in both refpdh, in" proper Senle ; yet we fhall open the Stare of Men dead in Sin, by comparrng this Death with natural •Death, between which in fome Things there is a good Par,,JlcJ, and to which, in the Judgment of divers WNthy Men, the Spirit of God doth allude, &c. P A R A L L E L ~ I. A Dead ·Man, one that is really dead, is .undera total Priv«tion of Life ; there is no Life in him : So Man by Sin is totally under the Privation of the fpiritual Life of God. Now the Life of God confifteth in a Principle of Grace, which is called a Seed ; '!'be Seed, fpeak ing of a Man quickened, remains in him, 1 Joh1t iii. 9· This Seed, or divine Principle, is unto the Soul, as the Soul is to the Body-: But there is no Sou], or Seed ot Grace, no Principle of fpiritual Life in an unregenerate Man; and therefore really aod truly dead in a fpiriwal Senfe, as the Body is dead when the Soul is feparated from it. If there be any true and real fpiritual Life in an llnconverted Man, how can he be faid to be d<>ad? for where there is not a cotal Privation of natu– ral Life, a Man cannot be fa id to be dead naturally. 11. Dead, Jhe Dead jhall hear, &~. This impons, Man was once,alive, fpiritually 9 0 alive,
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