irk the Clortd is taken ofthe Tabernacle. and in thefpark ofhis ownkndling, and they never did, nor never can receive other at the Lords band, butto lie down in forro». But this is to lean upon the higheß and pureft wif dom, todepend and reft onhim who is only Alfuflicient this is to be taken off all other things , all other fuficiencies, which are fo to other men : They can really fee there is nothing in man, nothing in the world, but that all arefull of emptinefl and vanity,-and deceit ; this man fees and really knows all this : other men talkmuch of them, as if theywere to -them the onely excellencies ; and that all below them are nothing but fbadows and delufions; but fecretly `in their hearts they donot think fo, and their praUices tell us other- ways ; their eager Peeking them, their clofe holding and hugging iheni,plainy dec,lares,that they lye with theirtongues, and diffemble in their hearts : And they teach to others, that which they never yet toucbedwith one of their fingers : And to them the things themfelves, to all in them, to live by them, are thofe heavy burdens which the Pharifees laid upon other men (boulders, but not touched them themfelves. He that isguided by any other light, or by any other tea- chers, heforfakes the light, the life and glory of Chrift, andgoes down into Emptine Te, Darkneffe, Mifery, Sin, and thedelufions ofhis own heart. He that thinks the Scrip- tures to be a light and a teacher,or arule, or a guide, without thisHeavenly and DivineTeacher in him, he depends upon that which can never teach, nor guide aright without him ; and therefore when men.talk fo much ofthe Scriptures, and miífe this light, they are but in darkneffe, and meerly de- lude themfelves and others. While Adam in theflateof in- nocencÿ beheld this light in him, he adhered to it alone, he law no other light, no otherfire, no other guide ; this was thefreeof life to him, this was Riches, Glory, Fulneffe, all in all : but, he calling his eye upon the tree of knowledge of goodandevil, this falle light milledwhim, and led him down into dar&nefl, death, blindntfl, irrecoverablemifery, andnever to return to the tree of life : and this was by following the çounfels and teaching of his own heart : and indeed this is the condition ofall the Ions ofmen, not one excluded, no M not Pfal. 71. 36. Luk. 46.
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