JO B. xlii. 5, 6.

Ver. 5. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear but now mine eye Seeth thee.

Ver. 6. Wherefore I abhor my felf, and repent in duft and ashes.

Such

Uch as fee GOD should abhor themselves, and repent in duft and ashes.

I. What is it to fee GOD.

I. NE G.

1. Not with the Eye.

2. Not the infinite Nature of GOD.

2. The Works of GOD and Effects of his

Attributes, Exod. xxxiii. 22, 23.

1. His Wifdom.

2. His Power.

3. His Justice.
4. His Anger.

5. His Mercy.

II. How should we abhor our felves, DNAN 1. So as to be ashamed of our felves.

2. So as to contemn and despise our felves, Ifai. vi. s.

III. What for?

1. Because we are fuch polluted Creatures.
1. In our Understandings.

2. In our Wills.

3.

Affections.

2. Because we have lead fuch polluted lives, Job xv. 14, 15, 16.

IV. How should we repent, ANI TAYA

1. So as to be convinced of,

2. Humbled for,

3. Refolved againft,

4. Converted from, our Sins.

USE. Repent.

1. No People have seen more of GOD.
2. No People have finned more against

him.

3. No People have been oftener called upon to repent.

JOB xlii. 5, 6.

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: &c.

THE

HE right Knowledge of GOD is a fovereign Antidote against the wilful commiffion of Sin.

I. What is a right Knowledge of GOD? 1. Diftinct, not confused, Acts xvii. 23. 2. Scriptural, not mere Natural, 2 Tim. iii. 17. 3. Experimental, not Hiftorical, 1 Sam. xvii. 36, 37. 4. Practi

4. Practical, not Notional, Rom. i. 21. 5. Actual, not Habitual.

II. What is wilful commiffion of Sin? It implies,

1. The Consent of the Will to it.

2. The Delight of the Soul in it.

III. What is it to be a Sovereign Antidote? 1. It expels the Thoughts of it from the Heart.

2. It keeps the Acts of it from the Life.

IV. How is the Knowledge fuch an Antidote? 1. In General

1. TheKnowledge, Heb.iv. 14. Pfal.cxxxix.
2. The Righteoufnefs, Pfal. xcvi. 13.
3. The Love of GOD is an Antidote a-
gainst all Sin.

2. In particular.

1. The fins of our Judgments are cured by the Knowledge of GOD who is Truth, Deut. xxxii. 4.

2.

Of our wills by GOD who is
Goodness, Mat. xix. 17.

3. Our Affections especially defire,
1. Of Pleasures, Voluptuoufnefs.
2. Of Honours, Ambition,
3. Of Riches, Covetousness.

USE.

1. Inf. How few know GOD?

2. Conviction. They that know GOD will,

1. Love him.

2. Fear him, Prov. xxiii, 17.

3. Admire him.

4. Truft on him, Pfal. ix. 10.

5. Rejoice in him.

6. Be obedient to him.

3. Exhort. To labour to know GOD. 1. MOTIVES.

1. 'Tis the Foundation of all Religion, 2 Pet. iii. 18. Ifai. xi. 9. Rom. x. 2.

2. The ground of all Comfort.

3. It will bring Heaven to a Man now, fob. xvii. 3.

4. That will bring a Man to Heaven hereafter.

2. HINDRANCES.

1. The natural blindness of our minds, 1 Cor.

ii. 14.

2. Perverseness of our wills, Job xxi. 14.

3. Conceit of our felves.

4. The cares of the World, Mark iv. 19. Luke viii. 14.

5. The love of Pleasures.

6. The deceitfulness of fin, darling fins.

3. MEANS.

1. Prayer, James i. 5.

2. Meditation.

3. Studying the Scriptures, Fobn 5. 39. 4. Frequenting the Ordinances, Rom. x. 17.

PSAL.

PSAL. ii. 10, 11.

Ver. 10. Be wife now therefore, O ye Kings, be inftructed, ye judges of the earth.

Ver. 1. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling, (or reverence.)

Ohn v. 22, 23. and xii. 44, 45. and xv. 23.

Jobn

I. What is it properly to ferve the Lord.
In General.

Ex. xx. 5. Mat. iv. 10. Col. iii. 24.
To promote his Glory, Prov. xvi. 4.
The Glory of his Wifdom, Power and Good-
ness, in the Creation and Government of
the World.

The Glory of his Grace and Truth in the
Redemption of Mankind, John i. 17.
Shewing, that we believe all that he hath
faid, and are as certain of it, as what we
daily fee.

II. How are ha to ferve the Lord?
1. In their private Capacities.

2. As they are concerned in making Laws.
is the Supreme Law-giver over
the World; his Word is the Law,
Pfal. xcvii. 1, 5. Pfal. 1. 12. Deut.
x. 14. Ifa. xxxiii. 22. Jac. iv. 12.
2. He hath given Laws to all things that
are; by his Word, Pfal. cxlviii. 6.
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