Some general directions for a comfortable walking with God delivered in the lecture at…Some generall directions for a comfortable walking with God deliuered in the lecture at…

or for the neglect of some expected complementall respect and observance, then pleased with all the other bravery and jollity of his high room. This is clear in Haman, though he was encompassed and crowned with much undeserved and extraordinary precedency and pomp; yet this one little thing, to wit, because Mordecai would not bow the knee, and do reverence unto him at the Kings gate, did utterly mar and dissweeten all the other excellencies and extraordinariness of the Kings favour: See Esther, Chap. 5. Vers. 10, 11, 12, 13. And Haman told his friends and wife of the glory of his riches, &c. But all this, saith he, doth nothing avail me, as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the Kings gate. 3. The third is an eternal sting, which to a waking and working conscience ariseth out of a serious consideration, and sense of Gods causefull, just and holy indignation revealed in his Book against impenitents in such kinds. Whereupon it is no marvel, though many times their hearts hating to be reformed, and hearing their several dooms denounced against them from Gods own mouth, in that Word, by which they shall be judged at the last Day, be full sorely smitten with inward bitter gripings, and secret guilty stings, the very hellish flashings and foretasts of that never-dying worm, which hereafter without timely repentance, ⟨p. 174⟩will gnaw upon their consciences with full rage and unquenchable horror world without end. The worldling therefore may justly tremble and roar when he reads that cutting Commination, Jam. 5. 1, 2. Goe to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments moth▪ eaten: your gold and silver is cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire: ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. The wanton, when he well weighs that flaming place, Heb. 13. 4. so full of vengeance against him: But whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. The drunkard, when he finds himself in the cursed Catalogue of that damned crew, 1. Cor. 6. 9. Be not deceived, neither fornicators, nor Idolaters,—nor drunkards, &c. shall inherit the Kingdom of God. The Ambitionist, when he casts his eye from the top of his usurped honours, upon that dreadful