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( 3 ) SONG of SOL. 1. 7.

Tell me, O thou whom my Soul loveth, where thou feedeſt, where thou makes thy Flocks to reſt at Noon: for why ſhould I be as one that turneth aſide by the Flocks of thy Companions ?

AS there is a very ſtraight Connection betwixt Sin and Miſery, ſo likeways betwixt Holineſs and Happineſs. Miſery is not only entailed to Sin, but even involved in it; Sin being a Separation of the Soul from God, the abſolute Fountain of all Happineſs and Excellency; likeways Happireſs is not only entailed to Ho- lineſs, but even involved in it; Holineſs being a near Con- junction of the Soul with God, the abſolute Fountain of all Happineſs and Excellency. By Holineſs the Soul is. like unto God, who is glorious in Holineſs, by Six the Soul is like unto the Devil, who is deviliſh by Sin. There- fore it may be ſaid to all Sinners, You are of your Father the Devil, and the Luſts of your Father you do. But what the deplorable Conſequences of Sin are, they already know, who now receive their Portion with Unbelievers; and they ſhall quickly know, who, tracing their Steps, are in an unhappy Motion toward their End! Ah, how little doth the ſecure World conſider, that that Day is hasting toward then, which is ſpoken of, Eccl. viii. 8. There is no Man that hath Power over the Spirit to retain the Spirit; neither hath he Power in the Day of Death; and there is 119 Diſcharge in that War; neither ſhall Wickedneſs deliver ! theſe that are given to it. There is a War there ſpoken of, which God will manage againſt all the Workers of Ini- A 2 quity ;