. •' 198 Meditations and Difl·ourfe.r whereby every thing is condited and made favo~ ry unto them, as we (hall thew afterwards. And the want of fpiritual diligence herein, is that which bath brought forth a negligent, carelefs , wordy profeffion of Rel\gion ; which countenancing it felf with fome outward. duties, bath loft cut of it, the power of Faith and Love in their principal Operations. Hereby many deceiv~ their own Souls.Goods, ·Lands, Poffeffions, Relations, Trades, with fecular iq~erefts in them, are the things whofe image iS~ drawn on their minos, ~ whofe CharaEfers are wri~ten o their foreh~ads as the Titles whereby they may be known. As believers behold~ng the Glory of Chrift in the bleffed glafs of the Gofpd, are changed into the fame lmage and likenefs by the fpiritof the Lord; fo thefe perfons beholding the beauty of the world, and the things that are in it, in the curfed glafs of felf-love, they are in their minds changed into the iame imag~. Hepce perplexing fears, vain hopes, empty embraces of periibing things, fruitlefs defires,ear~hly ,carnal defigns, curfed, felfpleafing imaginations, feeding on and being fed ,by the love of the world ·anq: felf, do abide and rrevail in thern. But .we~~have not fo l~arne4 Chrift Jefus. , · · \. 'i• . Cf!A ·P. ·~ I ;
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