Bolton - Houston-Packer Collection BV824 .B65 1634

ttndperpetullll quide. Land, to,make a Profelyte• .B~tals Priefls l~nced and cut their flelh before their Idoll, untill tbe bloud gufhcd out. The blinded Pa:eifts at this day whip themfelves, wafte their gooos_, andcon– fume their bodies with wearifom.e Pilgritrutges, ·to fee fome cGunterfeit Reliques , .and r.otten :Bones,, or to viftt accurfed Idols, and Popiib Saints: Nay, fome of them tranfported .with a more blon:die rage, .and furious -fpirit of Anti;. chrift, fuffer as it were with fenfclefneife, with defperate and-damned hold-n~!fe, mofi: horrible and exquiftte torments, for butchering ofKings; 1 f0rwhich they bopetomerit Heaven,aridrofayle l tbr<:mgh a·Sea of Roy.all bloud to the H~ven of . eadletfe refr; though indeed and truth,.they jufr– . ly light {horr,.and iink.e, before they are .aw.are, into the deepeft Lakeofthe hotreil: fire,andmoll: confuming flame of Hell• .Nmv,I prayyou,fhall thefe fervices of Sathanbefollowed~nd purfu~d with fitch heat and eagernc!fe, with fuchpaincs and patiencie of all miferies and vexations ; and ihall not the Lords owne Ordinances,and.tbe tnre worfhip of the true God have power to make us frep out of our doores with patience, and plea.. fure, to heare the Lords will revealed ,untous, to receive falvation toour foules., anda Crowne of .immortalitie tO our heads? Can fome be con– ·tellt 'tO toyle day afterday, fare hard, breake their -fleepe, eate the Bread of carefulnelfe, .an~all to . heape up a little wealth, .perhaps, with the Ioffe _of their owne foules, and fometimes they fcarce know forwhom; and !hall not weewith joyand ~heare:- 77 . .,;{

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