The Godly Man's Picture

Use 1.¹ It brands them for ungodly, who have none of Gods spirit,² Rom. 8. 9. If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of ⟨p. 98⟩his: And if he be none of Christs, then whose is he? to what Regiment doth he belong? 'Tis the misery of a sinner he hath none of Gods spirit: Me thinks 'tis very offensive to hear men say, Take not thy holy spirit from us, who never had Gods spirit: will they say they have Gods spirit in them, who are drunkards and swearers? Have they Gods spirit who are malicious and unclean? It were blasphemy to say these have the spirit: Will the blessed spirit leave his Celestial Palace, to come and live in a prison? A sinners heart is a Gaol, both for darkness and noisomeness, and will Gods free spirit ^†be confined to a prison? A sinners heart is the Emblem of Hell, what should Gods spirit do there? Wicked hearts are not a Temple, but an Hog•sty, where the unclean spirit makes his abode, Ephes. 2. 2. The Prince of the power of the Air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of ^*disobedience. We would be loath to live in an house haunted with evi• spirits; a sinners heart is haunted, Joh. 13▪ 27. After the sop Satan entered. Satan venture upon the godly, but enters into the wicked when the Devils went into the herd of swine they ran violently down a steep place into th• Sea, Mat. 8. 32. Whence is it men run so greedily to the Commission of sin, but because ⟨p. 99⟩