The Sincere Convert. CHAP. VI. I07 Mans per- dition is ofFhimtelE That thegrand caufe ofmans eternal ruine,or why to many are damned, and fo fewPaved by Chrift, isfrom themfelves. VV Icy millyou die ? Ez,ek 3 3. t z . The I be fìxih great caufe why fo many people Principle. die, and .perifh everlaflingly, is becaufe they will ; every man that periílheth, is his own Bucher, or murtherer, Alat.23.27. Hof 9. This is the point we purpofe toprofecute at , the prefect. The queflion here will be, Howmen plot, eft. and perfeft their own ruin. Bythefe four principal means,which are the Anfrw four great rocks that moff men are fplit upon; How racer' plot their and great nece(lity lieth upon every man tó l owrn ruine.' know them ; for when a powder-plot is dif- covered,thedanger is almofi pan : I fay,there are thefe four c<tufes of mans eternal over- throw, which I (hail handle largely, andmake ufe.ofevery particular reafon when it is open- ed and finifhed. Firfl, by reafon of that bloodyblack r lk ag norance. ance ofmen, whereby thouffnds remain wo- fully ignorant of their fpirituil citate, not knowing how the cafe flands between God and their fouls; but thinking themfelves to be well enough already, they never feek to comeout of their' mifery, till they perifh in it. ; _° i By fccu car-" Secondly,by reafon of mens Carnalfecurity, n riay. put-
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