A finall Number foved. · 2 I I tent fi.nners into the habitation of his glo- .;- ry. Certainly he is of purer e)'_es than to . .. ... hehold evil, and cannot look on iniquity ~¥. l-Ie is not a God that hath jJ!eajiJre in wick– ednefi: neither jhall evil dwell with him. Thefiolijh foall_not fland in his fight t. It is firange what conceptions fooliih n1en entertain of Almighty God, who imagine, that thofe who have ·been all their days · wall,qwi11g in fin, ihall be admitted into an– everlafiing fellovvfhip with him. Sooner fhaH light and darknefs dwell together, and heat and -·cold in their greatefi violence _ combine, and all contrarieties of nature be - reconciled. Can two walk together except · , . .they be agreed? Can there be any converfe betwixt thofe whofe natures fuit fo ill to– g-ether? Sure they who think to cotne fo eafily by happinefs, n1ufi imagine God al– together fuch a one as themfelves; elfe they could · never hope that he would chufe then1, and caufe then1 .approach unto him. · But 0 how widely fhall they find them– felves n~ifiaken, when he ihall reprove them, andfit th~ir fins in order before them: ·and they find to their confu!ion, that he is a con!imzing· fire to all the workers of ini– quity! Men are wont to frarne a notion of God ~ Hab. i. 13. t Pfal. v. 4, $.•
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