' . 2.) 4 ' 'The Trial and Su. 2.o vain, he wife, and the only Counfeller, deep in bis Counfels and Ways. The fpecial Evangel.ick Sin that we are guilty of, is Unbelief, .John xvi. 9· and this floweth from a low Eftirnation that we have of Chrift, and therefore the!e Confiderations are to be weighed in our Efi:imation of Chrift. · · 1.TheWifdom or Folly of anyMan is moft feen in the efteernative Faculty for it denominateth a Man wife; many are great Judges, and Learned, ~s theMagicians ofChatrJea, & PhiJc[ophers who knowV{ , mder~, h i~?enThings, & caufes of things, and y<'t u e not ~mfe, but F'oob, Rom. i . 2 1. and vain in their lmaQinatiom, becaufe there is a great DefecJ in their efl:imative Faculty, in the cl~oife of a God, Ver.22, z;. The prad ical. Mind. is blinded, aqd they chufe Da rl~nefs for Light, Evil for Good, a Creature ior thei r God. _rJ.y Faith Mofes, "tJ;hen be -was come to A (r, e, refu.f ~d to be calted the So11 of Phtiraohs 'lJaughter; .and chafe, rather to fuff'er1 ..Ajjli[Jion 'With rhe Peo1Jle of God, than to enjoy the pletifures of fin for. a Sea[on,. And how -is his ~ait~ .r~1a~e Faith ? Heb. xi. 2 5· , And how 1s 1t evievedient that he was not a raw, irmorant, and fooliih Child when he made the Choice ? But a Man ripe, come to Years, and fo as wife as he was old: it is proved, hecauie his efbmative Faculty was right, V er. z6.E.fteeming the Reproacb 'of Chrift greater Riches than the 'I'rea{ures of E:z.'Ypt. ·He is a wise Man, who maketh a wife choice, and for this 'caufe Efau is called, Heb. ,xii. z6. [l?ebeloun J a profane Man,from [2?hallat] Confudit, he haa no Wifdom to put a difference between the Excellency of the Birth-righ(, and a Plorfd of Meat; io Ezek. xxii. 8. [:BebeJoun to · Sab-
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