. dnd"perpetuatlquide. 21 ----- .in thsfedayu, w.u like as one had asked COJNt{e/1 at the OrAcle of vod 3 and yet all this great wife4orn~ in the'end ended iuC'Xtreme folly : for tJpOn a little I difcontent and difgrace in theWorld,hefatl.led hit. "s.m. tt·"~· 1 Ajfe,~Cnd JtJent hgme unto his Citie,4nd put huhou:[ehold · -~ · '· : inord.er,4nd hanged himfelfe~ z Sam.I6. 23. & 17. · ' . 2 3. Altho~gh theend o~all world! ywifedome be not fa Chamefull in theeyeof theWorld, yet uiidoubtedly-it is mofi: miferable and wofull in . the World to come, except their wifedome be fanttified and over-ruled by theLight of,Gods Word. Carnall wifedon1e can' neither preferve a man fromdea.th,nor prepare him to die b:leifedly: it f;annot .fi:ay his Life from going, neither can it ftep the Curfefrom commit~~? it cannot deliver him from damnation in the -world to come, but rather encreafeth the grievoufndfeGf his puniihment : for in this life it bath kept poffeffio·n againfr heavenly w:ifcdome, it made him uncapable of all good inG:ruCl:ions,it ~adehim impati~ ent of any rebuke, and held him in ignorance and ·dife>bedience all his life. · · ' ·u . l . .3 No goodmeanings -or intent~ons;without Nor good. knowledge and warrant in the Word ofGod, will mtaning.. \, ever ferve our turne for falvation ; nay, indeed they are abominable and hatefull in Gods fight. Howfoever, thoufands deceive themfelves in this . ' ' ' point. Yzzah had. agoodmeaning,in 2 Sam.6~6. asam.l.6., when hee put his ban~ to the ArkeofGod, and :l held it; for the Oxea did tbake it: but notwitbfl:anding,the Lord was very wroth withVzzah,and I ':...G_o_d_fm_o_te_h_i_m,_.l_· n_t_h_e_ra_m...;..e__;.p-la_c_e,_a_n_d..._t_he_r ..... e_h_ee_. __.;.;.;.;.;;.__!:· _ l(C 3) died; ,
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