The Beautie ofHahne e. 11IMOSMINIMald7VINNAISet 011.1110..IIMMINIIIMOM Alame .110.110 totreadito my Courts ? Tring no more vaine oblations, incenre is an abomination unto mee, &c. Till a man put away the evill ofhis doings, and cleanfe himfelfe, all his worshipofGod is but mockingofhim,and prophaning hisordinances. In value did the Marriners pray while Jonah was in thefhip;invaine did /opma intercede while theaccurfed thingwas in the campe. A man null lore all which he hath wrought in Gods worfhip, and have neither thankes nor reward for it, fo longas he harbou- reth any undeane affeelion in his heart, and will not yeeld to part from it. Any finne which wallah the con- fcience (as every great and prefumptuous finne cloth in whomfoever it is) unqualtfieth that perCon rot the king_ dome of heaven. Grace maketh a beleeverfitre of fal- vation, but it dothnot make himwretchleffeor fecure in living;though therebe not an extinguifhthent,yet there is a fulpenfionofhis right upon any black and notorious fall, that manmull not dare to lay claime to heaven,that hath dared in a prefunaptuous manner to provoke the Lord. Our holineffe is not the cau/e of our falvation, but yet it is the way thereunto; he which by any walling and prefumptuous finputteth himfelfe out of that way, mull by repentance tunic into it againe, beforebee can hope to finde outheaven ; for :wheat hJlineffe no man Pllfee theLord. He that is an hutItirc d miles from his owne houfe, notwithaanding his proprietie thereunto, (hall yet never a6uallyenter therein, till he have travel- ledover the right waywhich leads unto it. There is an Order, Aprimaad le himum in the falvation oftren,ma- ny intermediate pafrages betweene their vocation and their glory : "[unification, repentance, fan&fication, as a fcaleor ladder betwixt earth and heaven, he that fals fromhis holineffe and purity ofconfcience, though hee be not quite downe the ladder, and bath the whole worke to begin againe, asmuch as ever, yet doubtleffe he (hall never get to the top till he recover the flep from which he fell. A a 4 And 3 VERSE 3. mil
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