The Mountain of fat things dfcovered, glory, andall that can be namedor efteemedgood, and man is nothing but what may be named and efleemed evil , And this is certainly the work that Chrift makes in every foul wherever He enters: And Chrift brings the foul really to fee, All this true, in it felf, all done and aEted in man : that this Babel , and this Antichrift is fet up in him ; and alfo, that the power and wifdom of Jefus Chrift hath ruined and deftroyed them inhim ; and that this can be no other but conquering the work of Chrift, bringing g, v even every th&ught , into fubje ion in him , and he gives Jude. .5. him the tole praife and glory of thefe mighty works in him, why ? for he knows he had no hand in it himfelf : he could not believe of himfelf, repent ofhimfelf : never would the firong manbind himfelf,ruinhimfelf; but when afironger then Luke r r. he comes, thenhe is difarm'd, and never before : and thus 22, he fees himfelf delivered from bondage , fet free from the divels chains, brought out of Babylon ; and that C,hrifl alone is all inall , he is all fulnefs and no emptineffe , all riches andno want, all wifdomand no folly, all righteoufnef and no impurity at all : But contrary, himfelf to be no- thing bait emptinefs and nothingnefs , darknefs, mifery, folly, madnefs ;folly andmadnefs is in bis heart whilehe lives, Eccl. 9.3... and afterward goes down into the pit: whilemen thus build up themfelves, and have thefe high opinions of themfelves, they are in thepit, in darknefs, in mifery, in bondage, but they foe it not, till at length they fall down and fink into it for ever. But where Chrift appears inmercy, there he brings down the noife c fftrangers, all this in man and of man is but the noyfe offlrangers,though man have a high opinion of him, felf, and glories in thefe conceits , and thinks himfelf in. the Kings favour, and if any Thal be faved he Thai , and to blefeth himfelf and all is wel, and no wrath, nor no divcl, nor no hell, (hall come neer him ; yet alafs, this is but the noife and the voice offlrangers, which muff be brought down, Chrift cannot own this voyce (for 'Lis the voyce of grangers) but will bring it down to hell and to the fides of thepit, for, Efa.r4.r_ all this language is nothing elfebut the language of dea h,
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