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 But there is ſomething more terrible; and therefore, they will rather ſin than ſuffer the hardſhips attending duty, yea, attending mortification; or elſe their heart is fire-hot with the terror of the wrath of God, and, in the mean time, at leaſt key cold of love, and child-like affection to the God whoſe wrath it is. But the ſaved ſoul looks on it as of all things the moſt awful, but, in the mean time, with a childlike reverence of and affection to that God whoſe wrath it is.

Mark 2. Ye will have a tranſcendant eſteem of and love to your Saviour, I Pet. ii. 7. 'Unto you who believe he is precious.' His conſcience purifying blood, his ſoul-ſanctifying ſpirit will be more valuable to you than a thouſand worlds, so will deſire them above all things, pant and long after them, and ay more and more of them; and in compariſon of them, all the world will be but trifles in your eyes, which ye will be content to part with, to gain them, Matthew xiii. 49. 'The merchant man, when he had found one pearl of great price, he went and ſold all that he had, and bought it.' Luke xiv. 29. 'If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother and wife, and children, and brethren, and ſiſters, yea, and his own life alſo, he cannot be my diſciple.' Phil. iii, 8. 9. 'Yea doubtleſs, and I count all things but loſs, for the excellency of the