5O2 How may we get rid of Spirituall Sloth ? Sean. 2I. * repiditros fî Callum obdux era. flet Apofia. fia. Greg. Moral. lib 22. cap.5. Suit. annul. 118. Jofepbt. lntiq. C. 12. Vt condimen- tear fit altiu. Aug.lib.t6.de Giv.Dei.c,3o. ávbnrai, without mind and metal, do therefore prove Apoflates, be- ginning in the Spirit, ending in the fleth. Gal. 3.1, 3.* falling off from fervor will turn to falling away to folly. The flothful man will not bring his hand to his mouth, Prov. 1 9.24. it is expounded of a flothful Minis er, who will not bring voci firæ vitam foam, his works to his words ; though this be an undoubted trurh of lazy and flothful Mini. fiers, yet the Proverb holds true of all fluggards tendency to failing away in their hand from their mouth,i. from what they have former- ly profeff;d. Confider how great and grievous a fin Apotiacy is, it wa the firfl fin that ever was committed, it was the fin of the ll,:vds, for which they were cafl out of Heaven, and call down into Hell, Heb.1o. 38. if any man draw back ,my Soullball have no pleafure in him; a meta phor taken from a fluggifh Jade, who finding the load come heavy, draws back again ; the backflider in heart, much more in hand, from Gods way (hall be fil'd with his own waies, Prov. 14, 14. i.e. he bath run away from his Captain, Colours, Caufe, and he fhall have Martha! Law for it ; it will be worth my pains and your patience, to give an in- fiance what fevere Martial Law God bath executed on all Runnaga, does and Revolters. 1. Miniflers. 7udas who revo'ted from his Mailer and Miniflrie, turning from being a guard to his Saviour, to be a guide to the Soul - diers, /1îás 1.17. afterward hanged himfelf, his bowels burli out of his belly,and fo he took his proper and peculiar place in Hell, verf, r 8.2,5. 7obn Speifer Preacher at Ainsborough in Germany, who preached fo profitably and powerfully that the common ftrumpets left the Brothel - houles then tolerated, and betook themfelves to a batter courfe, A.nno. 1523, yet afterward revolting to the Papifis, be perifhed mi- ferably. 2. People. Remember Lots wife, Luke 17. 3.2. who turning back to Sodom, was turned into a pillar of fait to feafon us, that we may be preferved from the flunking fin of Apoitacy. Lucian a great Profeffor in the daies of Trajan, but revolting,was torn in pieces, and devoured of Dogs. The Emperour 7ulian the Apoflate was wounded with an arrow none knowing from whence in his War againftthe Perfians, who throwing his blood up to Heaven, died, fcornfully crying. Vicifi, Galilae, vicifli. II. Spiritual Adultery. Bodily froth expofes to corporal Adultery. 9,1heritsir tAgifáhsts. Davids inf}ance clears it fufficiently, 2. Sam. t i. z. Spiritual froth 'pores to Spiritual Adultery, Rom. I. 2I, 23. When they knew God, they s
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