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 like a piece of broad sea full of nets and lines. Satan hath laid his lines thro' the world it is all full of girns and traps wheresoever we go. In an instant John is here hooked with idolatry; David, with the glance of an eye is hocked by adultery. We have need to pray. Lord lead us not into temptation; and that we go not through Satan's camp without our armour and our Christ with us: for Satan's arrows and bullets are flying thick about cur ears whatever we be doing. We live here beside ill neighbour, we dwell on a dry march with Satan and his temptations. O let us beware of one that is at our elbow in the holiest work we can go about.

See thou do it not I am thy fellow-servant, &c. Angels will have none of God's glory. All that have gifts or light, should labour to see that our Lord get his glory. When that beast suffered mer to fall down on their knees to give him the worship and titles that was due only to Christ, we may know by that what spirit was in him. The man that is nearest to God would have all glory given only to God, God and we must not be halvers in his glory. Papists say, they give glory to God but images must have a bow by the way. Is it not our part to keep good neighbourhood with God to keep his marches? Grace may well satisfy us glory is a high mass; none may lay to Christ in that, Half-mine.—Cornelius gave hisknee to Peter, but he refused it. Where there is a creature betwixt God and us, that represent: God, if we bow a knee to it, that smells of idolatry. Although our worship be directed to God, we have a jealous Husband: of ye but the knee to a creature, and say it is to