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Sermony.
Strange: but [uch is our
indolu.
The
Kingdome ofHr-aven
work~
not
1yith'~·f~a~·
doth
wrathto come :
So dothfin
~e\~ltch~us.
For the
,I
off~
of
"H
eavm,1f~ha~
1\rere
aU;
e
would never abll:aine from It: 1f
nr:nta venttmt,
ne_ver care forth_elon:e df
H~a-"
:,,.,Repent,
~r
yonlo(eHeavcn,
will~ot : Repe~t;or y~'umull:toHelf(the pl~ce'ot
wrath to
come)·thatbites foone; that m.akes
anigttnr;
th~tw•ll~l),~~f lls_:
And,
~?fly
f~om
it make us
fly to Repentance.
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hfitakes the courfe
to
Q!ew us{omewhat
to come<
He choofeth
:Vemura:
'rtotura,ltis
amt·
o
d k
£i
R
.P
·,r.
d'
/7
.fomcthmgto
· For, the
things prefent
carry us adn
eepeus
r~., ',P~nt~nceh..
,r'J
1
•e;:tzo
1
o c__
e~rke,
"""'
·
refent JJort and IIJirth, prefentgoo com_p'.rny, preJ ent
~~etme
t mgs
c
te,
~
1eyma
e
~s
liO
fir(oi/e, for thefe
fruits
to grow
10,;.
But then
~a.s
Go
o
w<;>.~,ld
!la
ye
1t
)'befide~;
chefepre(ent things,there
are
vent#ra,
fo.me other
to
:,~e,
that
w~~ldb.e,rhought-on.
F
in
all
our
1
o!litie,
before wee venture too fa
he,
'It wtll not
~e
am1ife, to looke
c:~hofe ven~nra,
and wl1apvill come of it. The1e
~_'an
ira
ved~~ra
for peccata,Pr«·.
ttrifA.
.
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Knowingtheverrue of th•s.peece of penpethve,,
MoJw
ot~''wtfP
but rh
s;o.<S{~
D•ut
"
;
0
that men would butlooke
nl'l•,n~~'
looke but
th~hvay
to
t~e hmdmofrday~s;
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3
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9
ro the latter end! There is fomewhat,'thete, worth our fight. The
Prophets
do~.rlre.'
.
like
:
Popul.u men< dilexit talia(itis
Ier~mie:)
My
People, thiJ jinthe,y like;
an?'rba( lie<.f·l•·
fin they fove, Sedquidjiet in novijtmo,
but wh?-t
wtflb.ethe endof thu
l
What
Will
be.
comeofit
atthclall:~
Yea, ourbleffedSavtOurHqnfe!fe{andH<;fhouldmdveus),
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moll:
earn~ruy
with reares In his eyes
:
o
that th'ouhJ'djJ knorvm in thuthy day
j
·and
Luk.!9·4''•t~.
could not fpeake out the rell: for
rvee~ing
.-:
His mean,iiig \vas, the
ventu,Ya,
what was to
, '\
come upon them. So much dot.h it import us,
fome,t!ine-t~
opm
a
wirioowthat'way. ' •
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The clapping ttto,and theputtmg them fi-om us
q~rof
our fight, ma:kes us; we care
'··'·'"of."
not,
never"loo~
after the
tree,
or the
ftuiP. Vellti1ra
w?ut~ ?iucnbel~e for)*a'~ch?is~
Priferteft11Ef~«
•gtfltr.
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Thefe
ventura (three
of them) follow here clofein
~he
td1th
and
tF!',elfth ;er/is :
\vhatth•i
·,the
Axe; 'theFanne,
land the
Ftre
.-
I
w!ll only(touch the!!). The
1
.:4xefirft·:'For
"'"'"'a"··
~u:c,
our dayes be
~umbred_ :
there is a line firetched pp,on every one of?ttiiivcs,and
The
A:,.
lt
IS
no long
!me
netther,
q11tttvelo:cejl depojitto tabernat11tt h"l'"•
the uk1ng.<fowne of •
P«. 1 . 14 :.
this
Ta6ernacle
is not farre hence : death will comewith his axt-and downe we
~oe.
·.
For, it is hot (faith St.
Iohn) laidtothe branches,
but,
to theroot;
and then,we
;Ire
paft
verrc
·~·
~
fruit-bearingforever.
Profertefrt~f1tuigitur.
,
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·
~fte~
the
Axe,comes
the
Fan
,to
fhew whether our
hringing forth
be
co~1ie
or.chaffi;
Th•ti'~noef.
whtch1s ourdoome after death. So long agoetold ofby old
Enoch
mhts
Maranatha
V«fe ...
'
that the
Lordwill come,come
to
Iudge~nent
.-
Et omnes
j!..
bimm,
and \Veihall all fl:and
Inde 14•
before
Hisiudgement
SW,
and the
fan
goe over us: And there, by
thefefmiti
!)ere;
and by thefefmits only,all fhallgoe: for; none is in
Heaven,bur
by it. Sinners,bot!i
they m
Heaven,and
they in
Hell
.-
only, this difference;they in
Heaven
had
~hefe'fi:uits,
they mhe/lhad them not.And then,feeing they wil be all in
ai,Priiferteftu'am igitur.
Thefe~wo.ventura,come they
will to all,and to all ahke: we heare not of
wrath
yet~
But,herelt comes.
I
goefurrher and
aske,Ventura,
to come:
to come,
what~
Ira
.
,
ventura, 1vrath to come.
WhOfe
wrath?
His, who
when Hehath killedthe body, can
fajl
Luk.
" ·f,
b1th body and fotde il'to hellfire.
For, afi:crrhe
F•n
comes the
Fire.
The
fan
divides the
conie
and the
thaffi
fends
>
ehach to his owne place, the
Come
to the
Garner,
the
chant
to chefirc ' and
eve~y
tree
~he/;,;
tatbrtn<reth
tfith ·
d~:;·
h'h
,1:
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6
no
or
goo
J'
mt,
t It er too.
Pro
1
ertefruEim igitur :
J;'.lfe howwill
rz~
fcape the
wrath to Come
(faith St.
Iohn?
)How wilt you fcape
the
da>n~~tion
of
hell
of~~~
CH RI 'T
~)and
meaneth_efame thing. That of
CHRIST
is bur·a
commentarj
Chap.•~·Jl;
tsofSt.I~hn.Ireandftrearebutonething.
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Pf~~w~h~nolfeofjrewillll:artle
_any ofus evenat midnight?ouf ofhis dead
fle~p.
LA
:j
e
· but, much more,of th1s:
Non
eft
ifle tgnu
jir11t
q11•arild mfoco tuo
(faith.
w"Zb'
me)
Thts fire
IS
another manner fire, than chit on our harrhes. Why
1'
oUi:s
. Y
ee
quen•hed:
that, is(faith the
twelfth verfe)_
miquench~blejire:
A
worme
ever
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Y.
z..
·
gn•wing,