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Fourth place, Join to this self-judging, self-loathing: That we are to Judge our selves, is a Law laid upon us by the Supreme Law-giver, the one Law-giver, that hath power to save, and to destroy: And his Word that enjoins it, as plainly tells us what must go with it, that this self-judging must be accompanied with self-loathing, Ezek. 6.9. ch. 20.43. and 36.31. Do God that right upon thy self, that thou mayest tell him, Blessed God! I do even hate my self, because I find I have not loved thee, and I cannot but hate my self, and I never will be reconciled to my self, till I find I am reconciled to thee: This is doing Justice: Doth not the Scripture usually and familiarly so represent to us the great turn of the Soul to God: When poor ⟨p. 8⟩sinners become Penitents, and return, that they are brought to hate themselves, and loath themselves in their own Eyes? And is there any thing that can make a Soul so loathsome in it self, or ought to make it so loathsome to it self, as not to love God, to be destitute of the love of God? And then,

Fourth place, Joyn to this self-judging, self-loathing: That we are to Judge our selves, is a Law laid upon us by the Supream Law-giver, the one Law-giver, that hath power to save, and to destroy: And his Word that enjoyns it, as plainly tells us what must go with it, that this self-judging must be accompanied with self-loathing, Ezek. 6.9. ch. 20.43. and 36.31. Do God that right upon thy self, that thou mayest tell him, Blessed God! I do even hate my self, because I find I have not loved thee, and I cannot but hate my self, and I never will be reconciled to my self, till I find I am reconciled to thee: This is doing Justice: Doth not the Scripture usually and familiarly so represent to us the great turn of the Soul to God: When poor ⟨p. 8⟩sinners become Penitents, and return, that they are brought to hate themselves, and loath themselves in their own Eyes? And is there any thing that can make a Soul so loathsom in it self, or ought to make it so loathsom to it self, as not to love God, to be destitute of the love of God? And then,