t 3 2 The Secret sonthfayer,or down and call into thefire. And further, you boaft of be- ing the children ofAbraham, and the feed of the faithful, and becaufe ye are members ofthe true Church ; but, all this is to littlepurpofe ; for God íJ able ofthefeflones to raife up Chil- dren unto Abraham : So that you fee, for all your Forms andFelow/hipswherein you trufl, you (hall be in that day of theLord flript nakedofallyour garments, and of all your refuges; all thole hlorfes and Chariots which you thought fhould preferve you, and carry you out ofall danger, they (hall all be broken and cut off, and thy foul plunged into Pfal.38.3. the bottomleffe pit, and thou (halt have no refl in thy bones, be- caufe of thyfin, and by reafon of thy mifery, for thou (halt not knowwhich way to turn thee ; for all thy Idols, and all thy Images (hall not in that day be able to help or deliver 4.4. thee ; for, the wrath ofthe Lord (hall burn as an Oven, and thou mufiflandnakedbefore the prefence of the Lord, Heb. t2, who is a confirmingfire ; toburn up and confumeevery thing, &c. but Himfelf, And not onely fo, but as it follows in the next words ; /willcut off the Cities of thy Land, and throw down all tby firong holds. As when outward enemies came upon the people oflfrael, and invaded their Land, and theLordhad laid, they (hould go into captivity, then nothing (hould be adefence to them, but the enemy (hould break into their firongeft places, and their Cities fhould not fecure them, nor any of theirfirong bolds which they had made for their de- fencedo them any good.This nowwas true in the Letter,but this is alto as true in theMyflery, in the living and fpiritual fence : When men have made themfelves defences, and think they are fecured fromwrath and hell, and all florins, and no evil (hall touch them,neither will they becarried captive by Satan, nor by the Prince ofDarkneffe ; and although by theirwifdonm they contrived thefe forts and firong holds, and thought theunlelvs never fo fecure therin,yet all ofthem (hall be vain, hopelell, and helple(l : and nothing within them, nor without them (hall help them, and the wrath of the Lord flail make them vile, odious, and abominable, which be- fore they got coverings for : now whether they will or no, they
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