Chap.7 . acco rding to St M A T T H E Y v, 2 9 Ion] No not whenyou profefied moll love to me, and did me ( to fee to )greateft fervice, I knew you well enough for blackfl eep, or rather for reprobate goats, I knewyou for hirelingsand hypo- crites, but I never knew you with a fpeciall knowledgeof love,de- light and complacency. I never acknowledged, approved and ac- cepted of your perlons and performances, fèePfal. a.G. Rom. a i. a. Gods tharpnote doth eafily difcern, and is offended with the (link- ing breath of the hypocrites rotten lungs, though his words be never fo fented andperfuu'ted,thoughhis deeds be never fo mantled and masked,with (hews ofholinefle. Godutterly difowns and dif avows all fuch,for ifany manhave not the ffiirit ofGod faith Pant R°"8.9. the fameúnone of his ; be he whole hewil be. And whereas he naturally delights in mercy, yet hewill by no means clear thegrit- Quoitdeut te- ty ; yea hewill mock at their de.fíruftion, and laugh when their, rtuitur cu,rh ri. fear cometh. He will s i!ee them out of his month. Ah he will eafe (o,tutege, cuow him ofhis adverfaries : and be as well apaid thereof, as a man is fleta, Aug. that hath rid his flomack of the furfèt or fick matter that Re,e - 3.16. clogg'd it. E a I.x4. Departfrom nee ] Oh direful' anddreadful' fentence 1 filch as , lte, repro: (hall make their very heartftrings crack(not their cares t ngle one- Frobis., ven:rr, ly ) and their hearts fall afunder in theirbofomes, like drops of wa- ter. Surely if the gentle voice ofGod in thecoole oftbsday were ,zn aura diti. fo terrible to our firft parents : And if his fweet voice in the preach- `'' ing of the Gofpel of grace be fo formidable to the wicked, that Felix tretnbled,and the ffouteft are quailed, the edge of their fury is rebated, their hearts often ake and quake within them : what will they do when the Lion of the tribe of yudah (hall roar out up- on them, this fearful' Di/éedite that breaths out nothing but fire and brimflone, flings and horrors, woe and alas, teas of ven- geance and the worm that neverdieth, torments without end,and paft imagination ? The defperate fouldiers.( that wouldnot have dreaded to dare the devil to a duell ) fell before him to theground, when in the flareof his humility, he Paid but, IamHe; how will the wicked 'land before him in his Majefty ? If Gideons torches and trumpets fo daunted the proud Mid;anites, how (hall thefe abide the terrour of the laft day ? Te workersofiniquity] Ye that make it your trade and taske; Le,ini ,n'tici, that do Veicl`edly with both bands earnef, ly, that are Wittily Wick: van at ark>e2. ed, and can art out iniquity that dig in the devils mines, row in tariv,J, /a; ere his gales, grinde in his aai,ll, and are not wearied : that live by `ttcunt Bat. U 3 your
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