ISO o,ABNitt. rt 1.' · timu, fome fMrJ yet left of alife to come ! Ibelieve there is : a.nd when thou fiafi <done thywor!t, thou wilt hardly ptrfed:Iy over. come them, Doth not conf£iem:e fay, 0 but what if there foou/d 6t .tit Hell for the ungodly 1Where am I thm! Hearken then to thy Confcience. !2..f!.er. 20. Do.fhhOH believe iloat Jfiirits in borrowedfoapes have oft 11ppeared unt~ men, and in voi@eJ JPollkJn to t.foem, trJ draw them to fin, o~ to Ferdition ! If thou do believe it, thou maifi eafily be– lieve th<tt there is aHell which theyare fo bufie to perfwade us to and aHeaven of which they would deprive t:Js, If thou believ; not that there have been fuch Apparitions, I am able to giye thee un~enyahle tefiirnonies, Re~d what I have faid in myTreatife agamfr Infidelity of this. ReadRemigim ,-Bodin, Dantem, M.~dlem Male~corum, &c. of. Witches; and Read a little Book cat.: led The De'llil of llrbfon , where is abundant tefiimony of hi; Vocal conference, for about aquarter of a year together, in the houfe of a godly Minifier in a popu}ous City, before Papifls , Prorcf.1ants, and all. Many I could gtve you that wer~done here at home. In thefe twenty ~efiions I have but endeavoured to prepare you to 71elievc, by iliewing you thevery Light 6[ N tllture : But it is a livel] faith in the word of Gcd chat effeCtually prevailerh againfl: Infidelity : and therefore next let us come to that. I will not fo much lofe my time as to cite particular Texts of Scripture, for that which i~ the very work and drift of the Scripture. But becaufe thou canfi have no fhift in the world for thy Brutifh un– belief, but by denying the Scripture robe the Word of .God , ·I referr thee to that which I have written in the-Books forememi– oned roprove it : And at this time iliall add to what is there {aid, but thefe few ~eflions. · fl..g. I. if t'he Scripture be not the Werd of God, HnJJ couldit tell m of the milkjng of the world, and fuch lik.J things, which no14e hut God alone &ould tell ? I know you will fay , I k.,.nBw not whether it tell m true or not · or whether· the world were not, tU Arifiode thought, frcm eterni;y, But tell me this then (to paf5 by the re!l: now) How comes it t£J pa.(J thM in ~tll the werld, there are no Book.! or Monummts k_no'W!' cfany longerJ!anding the~ the time thllt Scri– pture a.f]igneth to the CreatioN ? It ts not fix tnoufand ye~r.s fince rhe Creatiou, If the world had lafl:ed th01afands and mdhons of years befot.:e, is it poffible that ~ll it$ Antiqwitic:i thould be Io{td, an
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