A ar%oiefomeCa2'eat.: Both contemne the portion of mercy the Lord doth offer tohim ; who like Efau did fell his birth-right for a meffe of portage. Secondly, Llnbrokenneffeof heart in the enjoyment of Ordinances, when men livenot in a daily fenfe of the extreme need they Rand in of mercy ; IJa. 66. Heaven ismy throne, and the .Earth is my foot-fool ; Now obferve what the Lord doth there fpeak, To him will I look that is poor in fpirit &-contrite; fuch a poor foul, faith the Lord, will I .look to ; and to thefe are oppofed, fuch as have nor fuch hearts, but do look on= ly to rbe Ordinancesof the Lord : Now, faith the Lord to filch ; He that offerer!) a lamb, is as if he cut off a dogs neck, ; and he that offereth incenle, as he that blef- feth an Idol. Thefe were a people that did plead for the Temple of the Lord,and had the Ordinances of the.Lord according to his command ; but here was their wound, they were not broken under the Ordinancesofthe Lord: This you (hall find, the Saints have many fins and wants under the Ordinances of the Lord : but little does the world know their gronings before the Lord, and the Lord hath mercy for filch foules as are fenfible of their need they Rana in of the Ordinances of the Lord. But now when men have found the Lord in an Ordi- nance fubduing tome particular fin : there are other fins remaining in their hearts, and they ftand unremove< able in their hearts; and hence, are the ftrongeft and deareft of all the rat : Now, I fay, whenmen having thefe fns, and knowing thefe fins in their hearts andfpi- rirs; when as, becaufe I cannot fubdue thefe fins; and they have attended on the Lord in the tile of meanes, and the Lord helps them nor; and becaufe, they hope to be faved at laft for all tilde : Hence they come to a truce with their fin; and never go mourning to the Lord ; nor fay, the Lord bath begun to fubdue Tome of thefe lulls : Now Lord, go on, but the foul is at truce with his fines. Beloved, . if therebe any pollution of the Ordinances of the Lord,here it is; that mencopse with unbroken hearts to the Ordinances of the Lord ; that never feel your needof them, &wounds and fores that are in your hearts, that men do ftarad with chafe very fins, that they think leycannot fitbdue; and becaufe, they cannot cafe them- !elves of them, therefore theygive way to oletna When frell
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