Pauls ConTerfion. 281 eth the vanity ofearthly things;fome conceive the comforts of the Spirit but avaine thing, but this is, becaufe they never tatted of the fweetnefre of the Spirit : there is no man but he hath fomething that he refteth his heart upon,as the Pfalmift faith, Some trufi in Princes , fome in riches , others in their friends, but it is God that is the ftrength and prop of every fandified mans heart, on which every holy man and woman refteth ; now rake from any man that which is his prop and ftay,and his heart finketh and dyeth in him like a (tone : fo will the heart of a child of God , when the aff'urance of the favour of God is taken away by finne : therefore as the favour of God is fweter then life it felfe unto him , fo the very interrupti- on and fufpending of it, is as bitter as death : and therefore in this regard, finne is to be hated. The feventh Motive, to moove you to hate 7 Motive. finne, is, becaufe finite is reWolfe , if you doe but Sin rcíttefte. truely confider the reftlefneffe ofthe heart, till it be fanElified , it will make you to hate finne : the heart is reftleffe, till it bee fet in a good frame of grace. Sinne is unto the foule, as a difeafe is unto the body ; a man that is bodily ficke will never bee at reft, till hee be well : fo a regenerate man is never at rei till firme be healed in him ; wicked - neffe is of a reftleffè nature, according unto that meafure it is found in any, as the Prophet faith, in ifaiah S7. 20. 2 I. where he compares the heart of Tr 57.20,21. wicked men unto the raging Sea, that [till is in motion, purging and cleanfing it felfe; fo a holy P 3 man
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