ple.iouo fait. 459 ,and from one threatning or other will flafh Hell in thy face :, Satan will rake in thy old wounds of Guilt, and put thee into frefh torments :9 the holy Spirit will be gone, and carry away all his Cordials with him ; the Pr®mifes will be as dry Breafas, and let out never a drop of fweetnefs to thee; thy Duties will hang the wing, and become dead and fpiritlefs, and without comfort. In the end thou wilt ex- perimentally find That in crooked Paths Peace cannot be found. Awake therefore, Believer, to the work of Mortification. Look upon fin, as it is an evil, an only evil, an hel- lifh abomination , infinitely more loathfotn than the Dogs Vomit, or the Son's Mire, or the men truous Cloth, by which it is shadow- ed out in Scripture. .Arraign it as the great - eft Malefacîor that ever was. Cali in Death, and Hell, and a blafed World, and groaning Creatures, and the Ruins of Angels, and Souls of Men, and the bloody Pa lion of Chrift, and the horrible Injuries done to God himfelf, To bear witnefs againfl it : Each of thefe can tell fad dories about it ; and all o them cry our, Crucifie it, Cructf e it, It is worthy to dye. Pafs therefore thy doom upon it, that it may do foe Strip it óf all its veils, and falle covers, and be- witching appearances ; pluck off its Golden Profit, and Silken Pleafures, and Purple of falfe Honour, that it may look as it is in its own ugly nakedn.efs, fief il, out of meafure fin- fill. Nail it to the Crofs by holy Refiraints, if it fart in a Thought, or creep in at a Senfe, G g 4.
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