15S .Offiek.ing Gods.face. __ put -imo the feare of the loife of their lives and: goods : b-ut ano~her man is like to .grapes which· have wine .in them put into the wine-prefie; what though the skinandhuske perit:h -.: yet the wine is Caved. So is it,with theSaints inperfecution ~ their · inwardman is frill raved, they lofebut theirhusks: but when a man hath·nothing inhimbutfldhand an outward m<rn,thenwhen thefe periili,all hehath . is loG, and hit11felfewith them. Itis good there· fore to try your felves what opinion you have of your felves before ill times come, that you may fee whether you have that in you which will not then periili, but be kept fafeandluftaine you ; and thereby alfo you !hall know whether youfeeketheLordsfaceorno. - 'Rule -2. Second rule is, confider, what it is you make . your utmoft end ; we are now·upori a poynt that · adrhics of very narrow differences, foras we have fai-d,a man mayperformemanyduties, ·go therein · as farre as another, and yet lofe all his labour, and ·~ ,all becaufe he feekes not the Lords prefence. And : the tryallof that lyech efpecially i:tpon this, what you make your utmofl: end c: for though the aeti· , .ons be good, yet iftheendbe yourfelves, or Gods : glory be made byyou, but as abridge, all is loft. · Now th~t you may not miftake here, you mull: , know,there is adoubleend -; the eneof theworlee} the other.ofthe-worleem11r: now the ends/tht w1rlee it felfe, may be good, even in hypocrites : the aeti- :on being in-it felfe aholy ace ion srdi»Abile in fe, and .tending to Godsfervice ; whenyettheendofthe ·workeman.is not the L1rd, but himfdfe, thisdifference
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