with -hold the truth in unrighteoe fite. 131 Doe this with one eye; with another eye looke on sr v. your lives and fee how fhort your praaice hath been of your knowledge, come willingly,and if you con - fefle, you fua11 be forgiven. This will drive you out of your Pelves, it will bee your Schoole- mafler to bring you to C x it i s r . They that carry this light in a darke Lanthorne, that rake thefe fparkes in the afhes, that as they would not have others fee what they doe, fo neither would they have their owne Confciences take notice of it thatwill lime, let men fay what they will,that live loofely,that either heare not, or regard not what they heare,let them confider it, for they doe in a fpeciall manner imprifon the Truth, they with -hold it in unrighteoufneífe;labour to know the fin,your miferable condition,and learne to be humbled under it. A fecond ufe we may make of this,is from hence vfe 2. Sheweth the mifery of thou' men that are near the ktng- domeof God bat not in to difcerne the condition of thole men which are miferkle,but fee not their mifery ;that are neare the Kingdome of God,but not in it : Men that are meere- lycivill, that heare much, and doe much, and goo farre, keeping their lights burning till the very point of the Bridegroomes comming, and for want of a little more oyle are excluded; as Ananias for a little refervation loft all; and the young man in the Gof- pell, that kept all the Commandctents of the Lord from his youth up, that came within a flep, but ne- ver into the mountains of the Lord. This is a race many miffs of, as the A pof. }le, i Cor.9. fpeaking of many running in a race, fayes, Many run, but all ob. tame not, that is, there is a company of men runne in the wayes of God, as well as the Saints; both rúone, I K a both
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=