Use. Now, If sin be such a stain, such a spot; hence then, let us learn to look into Gods Glass, to see out own spots, how we are bespotted by our sin; if it is such a Foul, such a Spreading, such a Staining spot, How is it that Men and Women see it not? they see not their own faces; Oh! they never were acquainted with Gods Glass; What's that, you will say? why, James 1. 23. will show you what the Glass of God is, in which you may ⟨p. 11⟩see your Faces, in which you may see your spots; If any man be a hearer of the word, and not a deer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural Face in a Glass; for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner a man he was. But who […] looketh into the perfect Law of liberty, and continueth therein, &c. And the Law of God is ••e Glass that God would have thee to look ••to, to see thy face in; thou canst not know ••y heart, but by holding the Law of God before thee. Paul thought himself beautiful enough, until the Law came. That Scripture […] notable for it, in Rom. 7. 9. For I was •••ive without the Law once; But when the Commandment came, Sin revived, and I died: […] was alive, I was jolly, and thought my ••lf well enough; but when the Commandment came, when God did but take the Glass […] the Law, and hold it before my face, I […] my self a most ugly Monster: I remember I have read of an old strumpet that had ••ed a false Glass continually to look in, and […] presented her beautiful unto her self, and […] would never look upon any other: But ••ce there being a Glass by, she chanced to ••ok into it, wherein she beheld her face, ••d being told her that it was a true Glass, ••e ran mad upon the sight of her ugly face: certainly the generality of men have no other ⟨p. 12⟩Glasses to look into, and to behold the face of their souls, but their own carnal conceits, and the ways of other men, and the like: But if God should but hold the Glass of his Law to some of your faces, to behold how loathsome you are in the Eyes of God) for so they are in Gods eye as this Glass presents them if they are not washed in the blood of Christ:) and it would be a dreadful sight to many a soul: But yet better that you saw it now while there are ways to cleanse your souls of their spots, than when you should die;
Use. Now, If sin be such a stain, such a spot; hence then, let us learn to look into Gods Glass, to see out own spots, how we are bespotted by our sin; if it is such a Foul, such a Spreading, such a Staining spot, How is it that Men and Women see it not? they see not their own faces; Oh! they never were acquainted with Gods Glass; What's that, you will say? why, James 1. 23. will shew you what the Glass of God is, in which you may ⟨p. 11⟩see your Faces, in which you may see your spots; If any man be a hearer of the word, and not a deer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural Face in a Glass; for he beboldeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway for•etteth what manner a man he was. But who 〈…〉 looketh into the perfect Law of liberty, and continueth therein, &c. And the Law of God is ••e Glass that God would have thee to look ••to, to see thy face in; thou canst not know ••y heart, but by holding the Law of God before thee. Paul thought himself beautiful e•ough, until the Law came. That Scripture 〈…〉 notable for it, in Rom. 7. 9. For I was •••ive without the Law once; But when the Comandment came, Sin revived, and I died: 〈…〉 was alive, I was jollie, and thought my ••lf well enough; but when the Command•ent came, when God did but take the Glass 〈…〉 the Law, and hold it before my face, I 〈…〉 my self a most ugly Monster: I remem•er I have read of an old strumpet that had ••ed a false Glass continually to look in, and 〈…〉 presented her beautiful unto her self, and 〈…〉 would never look upon any other: But ••ce there being a Glass by, she chanc'd to ••ok into it, wherein she beheld her face, d being told her that it was a true Glass, e ran mad upon the sight of her ugly face: ertainly the generality of men have no other
