ling Stars. You know what a V/orld jou live in; You know the old Q:!arrel betwixt the Seed of the \Voman and the S t>rpent, both whar it is,and that 'it bath been:kept on foot,through a\l ages~to eh is day. You know the [ fYbite] at which Sttthan, and, all his Arehers, have been fo long Levdliug, a.nd fo "hotly difcharging 5 the w-hite jicn.e in )'OUr Bre~dts, ihe .W 'hite Robe ony !l ur backs: A good confciencr, anLI a ho{;r Life, are the n1a rk> upon which all the ]? ury ofEarth and Hell is·fpent. Oh now proveyour Grace to be Grace, by its preferving it felf againfl: all this violence~, Let the Devil feeyou wiH be Holy, . whether he will or ,no: Let the evil ,,,;orld fee, you w:dl be goLdly, do what they can ;though they n1ay ' make·you poor,· and deHitute, and nake_d1 yet lea; them defpair of ever making you ungod0t:-lec ,grace hereby appear to be Grace, and1 th~ mighty power , ofGod in you: which that it: n1ay do. · z. Let Grace ripen towards Glory; let not the fcorching Sun wither your Bloffoms, but ripen your Ffllit,. If_you would hold ou~ , get you on:. If you. \Vould not have your [omet ,bn_g to come to Juft no– thing, increafe your Shre. Let yo~r (park grow up / intoa F!an1e, your Grain of Muftard-feed into a / ,Tree. I tell you.a Myfiery, The tallefr Cedars on - God's mountain will befl: efcape the wind, ·whilfi the Jower Sh,rubs are in greater danger of being .o- , verturned; if you will fiand fure,gec you upon tho higher ground. · Chriftians, befool the Divel, let himfee himfelf a Lofer, by all his ftirs he rnakes.againfr you. It is t1ot the firfi: tin1e, that his crofs Winds have,.. prov' d the moft aufpicious Gales, to put the Saints the fooner · hit~ Harbor. What he bath in~ended for_a withering ·I 4 Storn#, ~ .,
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=