1 '.~4 P.~rtiC ·:. Uer~ of Chrill, but ~hat is the fpawn of vencmous, fiery, bitter mahee, do for ~ll thts cry.up l-leli~t/.rof l1feeThough they cor– rupt the dochme of Chnil fo odwufly, and fpeaklike He~rhens j n m~my of theirexta0es ana writings' yet do they openly cry d.own your fenfual worldly wayes~ Do you not hear how rh.ey ra il at us for your C:kes that arc vicioui and ungodly , ancl tell us that youare the fruit and /h4me of our Min jftrJ ,? Though thefe words be the fruit andfoame of d1eir malicious Herdie (for all rhe world m1y know that it is. our daily work to p.rocure your. .j Convcrfion, and that: youkeep your fins, and refufe a holy . hca~ , ~~~ venly life, in defpight of us) yc.t Lmufr reil ,you, . that rhefe w.rerches fhall condemn you. The £1reets and Congregations have heard rhem cry out againfi your t~ngodly lives ; and yec you will not .tnrn EO Gocl. MaO: good and bad, ·mull Minilters ;and ragingHereticks give in their rel1imony.againllyou., ancl yet will you not.be fatisfied and.come in? 8. If yet yoa know not the better part; to whom wiH yoa ap· pe.tl ? Will yo.t,;rgo to the MPtltitude and put it to the vore , not only arnong1,;;:hrifiians;but throughout the world ? Truly there is no great reafon for this, when moll men are fo blind and wic– .k.t:d : but yet if you.fhould, they wot1ld go againfl: you, twenty, ifnot an hundred to One. I knowwell enou.gh that when it comes to praElice., they .will not live aholy Life , and fhew thereby; a . root of bitternefs: But if you ask them what their judgement is, Wbether God or the 11erld, whether Heavm or earth ,, whether Holinefs or fin be befl and to becb9(en, mofl: men are 0\gainfi you, and would give it you a$ rheir judgement under the1r hands, that God and everlafiing life (bQuld be firfl: fought : Though by this Confejfion they condemn themfe/v(s, yet is it their Crmfefsion. As I tol<:i you before, the rews are for this,doctrine ; the T urkf and other Mahometans are .for it; moft,of ,the Heathen world is for-it, doEtrinally, .tholilgh they will not praEljce it : Only there are three forts againU: it in the world, that ever J heard.of. ()_ne fort · are rhe .C4nnibal.t.that ea~ mens fle!h, ~ndgo naked, aAd live hke beafls, and never heard of_another life; and fomc fech favage~J as they. Another fort is afew. of. the Heathen Philofephers a.nd · and their.followers, that differ in this from all the reft• .A thtrd fort is here and there a debauchedapoftate, that by .the . righteo~s judg~ment of Goctare fo far forfake.n by his Grace, for their pfide aml.fal.th~~cl .ag~,in~ tb,~ ~ni:th, ,tha1 they .hav.e loft ~he ~~f ,
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