f '· ( 48) tafteJt .4WAJ, Matth.6 ·4 r. The Salvation of Godfent· away, A&s 2 8. and can there be any thing worfe befall~ People ?a Soul-famin'e, an Eclipfe of their fpiritual glory, tbe lbutting up of the ,Kingdom of Meaven,tkecarrying away of the Salvation of God: What worfe thing <Zan come unto them '?. le's a great V\'onder there lhould be. no deeper Senfe ·of this moH dreadful of evils, than is rnoltly found: · Men little underflaud what they do, who either in a way of merit, or inftrt~ment~tl!ity, procure, and bring on this-plague ; and fe.w underfiand, or are .j fenfible,what they hereinfuffer; to be an inftrnmlnt · in this ·hellith work, ie an office (for a Devil ; and thefstfen·ngof fuch a pla_gue~ (to them that,under.. , , 1 tand it) is an hell above ground. This dnrknefs is the very fame for kind, with the darknefs of Hell ; as thelight of the Gofpel is ·the fame in kind, with the everlaltipg lizht : as glory under age; fo is this' thickdarknefs, in[pecie, and infemine, the.da,rknefs of the pit. Oh , what an hel1 of wickedtt1efs dorh this World then becon1e ! .. the Devil is then in his Region ; is let loofe, lliles' the Worl.d at plea- , fure, dccei ves, devours, deftroyes Sou]s, wit~out. contradiction ; takes them captive nt hiswill, car- , ries them do~n by whole l11oals t~ deHruction : Thofe that obfcrve ·what a World there is, where the Gofpcl is not ; what oaths, cm'fes, blafphemies, -\beiJuine lufts then abound ; what Lions, Tygers ~, wild Bulls, wild Boats, Men then become qne to ' another, need not be to fcek for an Argument, ,to prcve there is an Hell ; they fee an Hell abovegro~tnd. . Thefe dark and difmal( feafons, are the Devili:s Mt~~rts, where he may vent his Helli/h W~res, h1s '· fna res,
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