Bates - BT825 B37 1683

S E M O N S trial : For the tirnerous Spirit being wholly intent how to avoid the incurfion of a prefent Evil,. forgets or neglects what is indi. penfzbly to be done, and thinks to find an excufe in the pretended necefhty. How many have been terrified from their clearef1 Duty, and refolved Conffancy ? To e- fcape Death, they have been gull- ty of the mofI infufferable im- pieties, by renouncingGod their Maker and Saviour,and woríhip- ping the Devils for Deities. E- very Age prefents fad fpeaacles o s6.zr, of many that (hie iniquity rather tTan affliction, that relinquifh their duty, and by wicked complian- ces fave their Lives and lole their Souls. Carnal Delires, and Carnal Fears, are the Chains of Hell that retain Men Satan's Cap- tives. But what folly what madnefs is it, for the avoiding the'

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