Chap.6. according St MA T T H Y PT. 3I and be not ye conformed to the world ( who mind; earthly 3r9 things, and have damnation for but end) be ye transform- Rom,, spa. cd by the renewing of our minder, that ye may fee and prove by good experience ( not by a National' knowledge only) what that good, and holy, and acceptable will of God is. C ìncerning theEaft -gate of that Temple in ,Ezekiel, Thus faith the Lord ; Ez;k,4.n, ThúgatcJhaffheAnt, andJhallnot be epened, and no man !hall eater by it,6ecanfe theeLordJodofIfrael hath entered by it. Here through tignifying, faith a Divine, that although the heart of a Chritiian, which is the temple ofthe holyGhost, may let many things enter into it at other gates, yet muff it keep the Eat}-gate, the molt il- luminate and high& power andpart ofit, continually Phut againtk all men, yea against allthe world ; and opened only to one thing, I mean to God, who bath already entered into it , and cnlight- ned it with his Spirit. That as at the windows ofNeal/ Ark, these cntred in nomia norwater,nothing elfe but one thingonly which is light: fo at this Ealt -gate, no milt ofhumane errours, no grater of worldly cares may enter in, but only the light ofheaven, and a fanetified defire tobe fait knit, and perfecîly united by faith and love to Go& Verfc 2 3. But ifthineeye beevil,&c,If thelight that u in thee be elarkneffe, &e._] An evileye is here oppofed to a jingle eye , that looks onGod lìngly abfiraeced from all other things, and affects theheart with pure love to him for himfelf, more then for his love-tokens. Thefewe may lawfully have, but they may not have us. Ifany man love the world, the love of the Father is not in z Io143. z 6, him. For allthat re in the world, the heft' ofthe flefh, the loft of the eyes, and the prideof fi, that is, pleafure, profit and preferment ; thefe three, like thofe three troopsof the Caldeans (Joo i.17. ) fall upon the faculties ofthe foul, and carry then away from God the right owner. The mind; is filled with greater darkneffe then utdaáon can beexpreffed. How great is that darknefle ? The Prince that videndodicitur: svanterhunderflanding ie agreat oppref(our : but be that hateth covet- tl Mydaofe- oufneffe, that bath not his eyes bleared and blinded with the duff cundaraEryrao of earthly-mindedneffe, Jhall prolong hit dales, Prov. 28. 16, So, 1ogianGr ccana Ifa. 5 6, I o, I I, His watchmen are blinde : And why ? They are c.ecxe ef#. greedy clogs, which can never have enough, and they are fhepherds which cannot underiand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, fromhis quarter, Ifa. 56. io, 11. Of this fort were thofe covetous Phatifees, that devoured widows houfs; Q,4 +herefore
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