5o6 How may we get rid of Spirituall Sloth ? Serre. 2 you have that ties always in ambufh to wrong you, yea to ruine you, Sathan is the unwearied Peripatetick,who walks up and down for prey and (poil, ?ob I. 7. now the dull foul is his prey; a flug fhip is a pur- chafe for the Pyrat, and a fluggifh foul for the Devil ; it is holy and wholfome advice given by Peter T. 5, 8. Be fcber, be vigilant; beca tfe yusar adverfary the Devil u a roaring Lyon wain th.about, feeling whom he may devour ; she Devil(fays pious and plain Latymer)is the snot: dili- Mr Hugh La- gent Bifhop in England, he is ever at his plough : no Lording nor ley_ timer's Sermon preached in tering ma y hinder biro his office is to hinder Religion, to maintain the fhrouds Superftition, to fet up Idolatry, to teach all kind of Popery, where his at Paull plough goes, there away with Books, and up with Candles, away with Church in Bibles, and up with Beads; away with the Light of the Gofpel, and London. I 8. up with the Light of Candles, yea at noon days. How fhonld this uic O`ax.an.r 548. ken us to be alive for God and our foul,that have an enemy fo attive Of the Plough. pag. 25. alwaysagainfi God and our foul. You need not quicken a Mariner Prius conchae- to make -c ut all the cloath be can that knows a Pyrat bath him in nern,complexi- chafe at ftern ; timer addidit alas, fear will fpread the fails which are onem uniufcu- the wings of the fhip,the Devii the great Pyra.t of fouls to make prize iQgtume icir, and pillage of us and our graces, bath us in daily purfute; how careful ones laqueos flrould we be to fill the fails of our fouls with the ftrong gales of the appenit.;Greg. Spirit, that he may neither overtake us, nor take us. Mor. lib, 9. IX. Confider when you flothfully and fluggifhly perform duties, you NuKZa¢iC&' do but mock God, Ga1.6.7. God is not mocked, i.e. God will not have re. (3aÌ lode- his nofe played with, N,fus derifbni God is mocked three ways. dicutui. Pliny. i . Directly when men by deriding fpeeches mock the Effentiality, or Perfonality of the Godhead. As r. The Effentiality, when a blafphemous taker Thal( fay God is nothing elfe but the letters read backward wch is(Horrefco referens.)Or 21Y The Perfonality. As s God the Father when he (hall be called a Cooper hooping his * Perkins. tubs when it thundreth; * or an old man fitting in heaven,as your com- mon and country people dually jeer. 2. God the Son, when 7telian (hall gibe him with the Crucified * Apage if as God,or Libanitu,the Carpenters Son,or as Pope *Leo 10th to Cardi- nugss de Cbri. nal Bembrsi when he brought a piece out of the Gofpel to comfort ,Ro.PaeMed. him, when lick, away with thofe forgeries and follies. brff.5.«Ief. 3. God the holy Ghofi, when Seeurtue fball call him the three beaded Cerberus, and ridiculous invention of humane curiofity. s. Reflexively, when men gibe and jeer the faithful meffengers of God,
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