The Mountainoffat thins difeovered. him, and thebottonrlefs guile Peen in himfelfe : And that Hell men fo much talkof, he fees to be really in himfelf,and that hirnáèlf is theft Image of the Devil. Secondly takeMice how this Valle comes tobe remo- ved and taken away. Now this'Vail is only rent and done away by Jefiis Chrift: not all thepower: nor all the art of all the Sons of men is ever able to remove this Covering ; there is none to be found in Heaven or .Earth to open the jeaven fBales but onely he, Jefus Chrift alone bath the ley of this bottoinlejspit : None can u:/lock; this hellifh heart of man but himfelfe ; his heart is the bottomlef pit, and the Devil is the beeper : And till Chrift himfelfe corne.and unlocband open thisgulfe,and remove the Devil, tis not all the endeavours of the Sons ofmen can bind thisfirong man, nor open thefouleand dark heart of man ; but all their 'Judy,. and all their endeavors are to ftrengthen this Valle, to make it thicker, that they may not fee the hor- riblepit : man runs to this thing and tother thing, and all is to keep from his fight the knowledge of himfelf; either I fay to the Cares ofthe world, or thepleafures, or the riches and contents thereof, that if it once begin to be opened, and he fees the fmoakthereof begin to afcend,he ftrives by all means to cover it dole again ; he choaks thefe thoughts, that the worm that never dieth may not gnaw within him, and to quench the fire which can never bequenched but onely by the blood oftheSon ofGod;or elfe I fay,whenimen areRill dogd with the thoughts ofhell, and thefe things will not be a fufzcient covering, they feek out farther, and get a covering oftheir own devifing; they get to thisduty and to that form, and change from better tobetter(as they think)and from one degree ofholineie (as they conceive) to another, and ther- by get an opinion that they arechildren of God andHeirs of Heaven, and therefore they arefafe and allis well with them; and they think they do all this in conformity to the mindand will of God, when it is meerly to hide and cover themfelves from their own beholding, and that they maybehold them- felves holy, and wife, andgracious, and happy : Now I fay,tbe work,ofChrift is to difcover all this to be a delufion and a lye, E 2 and Secondly, How the Vail is r-nt. Rev. 5. 5. &9. t< Mat, 12. 29. Mark 9, 44-
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