{ 44 The Builders of Babel Lordof the Flarveffs fending : No No ; all thefe things muff be loft, efteemed as dirt and dung : you know what Chrift Luk. 5 37 layes, put new wine into newbonds,. and thenboth are prefer- ved : If all that we do, be any thing but what Chrift does in us : If all we teach, be not Chrift his teachings in us : If all our works be not from the newman, born of God which cannotfin : ifall be not theworks ofChrift inus, whatever it be that man ere&s and lets up to direi or guide him, but onely the wifdomfrom above : whatever it is that ffrengthens him, but thepowerfrom on high, all mutt be pulled down Mat. t 5, and fcattered, all made 13 ABEL: Every plant that the Father bath not planted, muff be rooted up: if it be not wrought and acted by his Spirit in us, it cannot ffand. When men think by their power and wifedo:ne, and by their Authority to a& for God, and they can propagate the Gofpel and'eftablifh truth and fettle Religion, and they can make an uniformity which all ought to fubmit to:wherto doth all this tend , but that man fhould take upon him the work, and foveraignty of the. Almighty ? and this is the plaine Euglifh, God is not wife enough, nor powerful enough , nor Ailfufficient enough to ere& the Luk, 10.2 Kingdomeofhis Sonne : but we mull do fomething, and we will contrive, and we will fend forth Labourers as wee (hall think meet : andwhat we judge tobe truth and wife- dome, and holineffe, that and no other, fhall be cftablifh- ed : What's all this, but to eftablifh the wifdom of man, and thepower of man, nay indeed the wealineß and igno- rance, and theblafphemy of men above the fir-ength, wife- dom, righteoufneß and alfu,ciency of the Eternal God ? Whats this, but charging of God with weakneß and infuf- ficiency, and afcribing that to nun, which alone is due to God ? Is this any other, then to hake the weapons of 2 Cor.to. our warfare Itrong in man , and in the power of his might ? Now the bleffedwork ofGod, is to p11 down this Babel., built by theFons ofmen : oh (ayes man, Lets have the wif- dome and power of themagiftrate, and let him fhew him - felfefirong for God : and what he judgkh evil, and fiinne, and
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