The Godly Man's Picture

3 These heart-burnings, hinder the progress of piety in our own souls; the flower of grace, will not grow in a wrathful heart; the body may as well thrive while it hath the Plague, as a soul can, that is infected with malice: while Christians are debating, grace is abating; as the spleen grows, health decays, and as hatred increaseth, holiness declines.

3 These heart-burnings, hinder the progress of piety in our own souls; the flower of grace, will not grow in a wrathful heart; the body may as well thrive while it hath the Plague, as a soul can, that is infected with malice: while Christians are debating, grace is abating; as the spleen grows, health decaies, and as hatred increaseth, holiness declines.

5 Not to love is very fatal; the differences among Gods people, portend^† ruin: all mischiefs come in at this gap of division, ⟨p. 205⟩Mat. 12. 25. Animosities among Saints, may make God leave his Temple, Ezek. 10. 4. The glory of the Lord, went up from the Cherub, and stood upon the threshold: Doth not God seem to stand upon the threshold of his house, as if he were taking his wings to •lye? and woe to us, if God depart from ^†us: If the Master leave the ship, it is near sinking indeed: if God leave a land, it must needs •ink in ruin.

5 Not to love is very fatal; the differences among Gods people, portend^† ruine: all mischiefs come in at this gap of division,