Confoundedin the rreinguage. si to tlìemfelves eondtttanthey do behold muchgoodnef , and many fine things oftheir own making many Silver fhrines A&s 19. 'and goodly performances; they can reform,and repent, and 24. give laws, and take ability to themfelves to keep them: And thus miferable 'man deludes himfelfe and ereas Babel. But when the Lord comes down to fee what the children of men are doing, andbegins to thew them their madnefs and fogy, andto open the mouth ofthe bottomlefTe golfe in them, -then man appears to himfelfe blackand ugly ; and that he is as a Blackamonr that can never by ail his endeavours change Ter. 13.23. his skin, or alter his courfe : but that he is weer weaknefs and nothing but emptinefs and confufion ; but till this time, what a proud conceitedcreature is man?arid how dothhe look upon himfelfe, and upon his riches and his' parts, and his endowments before others; & thinks every one Ihould admire him, as he doth himfelfe , and all his things tend to this end, To be admired and toget himfelfe a Name, and he is äi11 fpeakingof his rules andofhis doings, and of his righ- teoufnefi, andofhislrilinefs : andall this is but to magnifie andmake himfelfe as great and as excellent as may be. This Beloved is the condition ofall the Sons of men : theirfoly is their wifdome, and contrarywife,their wifdom is theirf;ly. For man tobe madenothing, and'emptied of all his glory;. to bemade nakedandbare, and poor, and blind, and nvfera= Rev, 3:11 ble, and tofofake himfelf, and take up the Cr4re of Chrifi mat: 26.- this he abhors and (pits at : This DOarine is Herefie and 24. Blafphemy: This is the preachinghecalls folly and icn rance, , 1oh 19 I°2' Familifine and Ranting,any reproaches that can be invented. And ifChrifl himfelfe) were upon earth, they would call- him. a Heretick, an enemy to Cefàr,anda Seducer, antraPivel, whatnot?` and vvho would be fo forwardto fourge and Crucifie him; as thofe that fo much outwardly' pretend for him and fay, they are his Servants and pretend to walk ac- cording tohis life and commands ? In the hearts of All the fons of men there is nothing but this confuted Language : for bow cana clean thing come out .. ofan unclean ?. This is the Language that comes out of man Mat .. that Ix. 37
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