andperpetual! quide•· Bttt-ls Prophets, I Kings I 8 ~ :aS. were fo hot and 1 I<J•g;ts.,t. hafl:ie in their will-worfhip, thAt they cut themftlve.r with knjve.r, And launcers, tilt the bloud gufheJout upon .them. The Papills they whip themfelves, they vowContinencie, perpetuall Povertie;and Regu.- Iar-Obedience ; ·and yet is the profeffion and pra-: dice of both,bloudie and idolatrous. VVhen the Iewes wotJl.lippedGoaafter the devifed falhions of the Gentiles, though their ~meaning was to wor!hip nothing but God, yet the Text faith,they • tl'trfhif!ell nothing but Devils, Deut.JZ. 17. And Deut.31..I7~ God there protefrs,that therefore 11 firewa.r kindled in h«wrAth, th.ft fhould burnt unto the bQttDmeDfHell, a.nd[et 1n fire the foundAti•n.r of themountaines. So hated ofAlmightie God is all fervicr and worfhipdevifedby.the wit and ~ill ofman , without warrant in theWord ofGod. · 5 Laftly;nottheVVordofGoditfelfe in the Nou'heWar.J Letter .. without the lipirituall meaning, and the itfelfeinthc • Letter, with.. finger of Gods Spirit to apply it 'powerfuiJy to out rhc moa· . 6Ur foules and confciences, is any fufficient'rule ning~ oflife,or able~ to bring us 'into t£e Light ofGrace. This appeares in Nicedemm, who was a great Dod:or in the Law, and the Prophets, a chiefeMafter Ioh.3.1o; And Teacher in lfrMl; yet was a very Infant and Ideot ia the power ofGrace,and myfrerie ofgod-– Hneffe. For all his learning in the Letter of the Law, he had not yet made one fiep towards Heaven; for hee vvas not onely ignorant of, but had a very abfurd and groffe conceit of the new birth; which is the very firft entrance into the Kingdome of Grace • .Forwhen'Chrift told him, bee could (c 4) not
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