perate things not of the ſame kind in Compounded Bodies, and alfo to cauſe pain and ſmart, 3. They muft know, that every one 1n the former part of the Verſe, is the ſame witii ev2ry Sa- crifice . in the latter part. For every Man and Woman hvigs, will, or ſhall be a Sacrifice to Goa, Godly Men arc not 2-1 Priests, 1 Pet. 2. 5, $. Rev. 1.6. and 5. 10. but Sacrifices, Km. 12. 1. wicked Men, though indecd they be no Pricfts, { v«©- luntarily giving up themleives unto God, ) yet they ficuil be Sacrifices like the Sacrifice in BJ2rah, JJ. 34. 6. or in the N5:tb Country, by the River Eupyrates, Jer. 44. 19. See alſ9 Exeb. 35 I7. Zeph. 1. 5. Thc Saints are both Pri-#s and Sacrifices, Tackle things premiſcd, the dithculty or the Text ts not great. Cur Lord had vecn 1n the former Verſes perſuading the Mortifica- tion of Mens dearcit Lufts, under the Notions of cutting of the Right Hand, or, Foot, and plucking our the Right Eve; and pictling this Exhoctetion from the Elgiblineſs of it, rather than (keeping thein } to le trruct int> Aeil, Where the Wim never dies and where the Fire never g02t) out, Now (laith he in this Verſe, ) | For every one ſhall be ſalted with Fire, and every Sacrifice ſhall be ſalted with Salt.) God hath a Fire, and a S:z!r, which every Man muſt enduce: He hatin a Parging Fire to tak: away Men's Droſs and Tin. Some he B.ptizeth with the Fly Ghoſt, and with Fire, Matth. 3. 11 Luk. 3. 15. And he hath a Confurning, Tormenting Fire, a Fiery indignation, which {hat devour the Ade: ſorties, Heb. 10. 27. It 1s true, the Lords [a- cred Fire of nfs Holy Spirit, will Iike Fire and Salt cauſe ſmart, while 1t pargeth out our Lults, like the cutting off of a Right End or Foot; but judge you whether 1t be not better to en-
dure that ſmart *i;un to endure Hell-fir?; for every one mutt | endure one of tlick ; vea, ar.d cvery cone muſt be falted with
Fire. The vaints {at {te tcalon. 1 with Influences of Grace. Epheſ. 4. 29. Col. 4. 6. And tey that by the Holy Spirit of God bepreſcrved bv i111 through the Power of God to Salva- tion, till their Purifv © 58-art, and Heolintis of wie, Natl uſue in an Incorruptivility of Being, and Bletfed State, « Cor. x 5. $2 $3, $4. They hal] be Salted n, or with Fire ;, that is, preicived 1n or by the Holy Fire of Geds Holy Spirit, ( nor is Saltin- with Fire ſo hard a Metaphor, as being Baptized with Fire, fecus to be, nothing being ſo contrary to Fire as Water ts; ) others, viz. wicked and ungodly Men, who will not endure this Fre, nor be ſalted with this Salt, ſhall yet be ſalted with another Fire, and with anther Salt, which 1s the Fire that never 25s out, meg- tioned in the 44, 45, an4 48 Verſes, which will caul: then a much greater pain and ſmart; and in which beiag ſeparated from all their Comforts and Satisfactions, they ſhall be /c«/ted'; that is (C as to their Beings ) preſerved. that they may be rhe Objects of the Eternal Wrath, and Juſtice of God; tor every one mnſt go through one or the other *:re ; ever Soul mult be ſeaſoned with the one or the ot!:er Salt, Now judge you then, whether it be not more adviſeable for you to be Szafoned with this Salt, though you indeed iball endure ſorve ſmzzt 1n your Ads of Mortification and Selt-denial , than to endure Hell-fire, where you will te Salted too as well as Burned ; that 13, not Tormented only, but preſerved iu Torments, fo as you ſhall never conſume, but be ever dying; for with one or other of theſe Fires, every Perion, every Man or Woman breathiing muſt be ſalred and ſeaſoned, as of old 3 every Sacrifice was to be Seaſoned with Salt.
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5 better for thee to enter ints the kingdom of God |
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