Some weighty ConfeCtaries. 63 are not in the harvell as Reapers to gather ' but as wild beafis that are broken in to make (pail, or Samplens Foxes to let all on fire; running up and down from Country to Country with fire-brands at their tails, and flings in their, mouths, which they call by the reverend name of Zeal. But you may think I have been long in difcoveries, aggrava- tions, and complaints ; and therefore I will go no further in that fort of work,but only to ad joyn thefe three or four pra&i- cal confeCtaries following. CHAP. X. Some weighty Centenaries. Confea. I. C0 common andPotent isfelfifhpiefr in the world., Lithat its enough to convince a rational Confide rate man, of the truth of the doCtrine of the fall of man, and of Original corruption, againft all the objeCtions that all the Seel- nians or Pelagian' in the world do make againil it. He that thinks that God made man in this diftempered, difiraCted Rate thatfeifiihnefs doth hold the world in,hath unreafonable thoughts of the workmanthip of God. He that leech even childrenbefore they can (peakor go fa felfifh as they are,& all mankind without exception to be naturally as fo many Idol-gods in the worid,and can believe that this is the Imageof God, in which they were created, doth make the Image of Satan to be the Image of God : No wifer, nobetter is the dothine that denteth Original fin, when felf huh fuch a tyrannical , univerfal raign in all the world. Confea .2. So deep rooted, and powerful, and univerfal is this abominable vice, that it muff teach us what to expeCt in all pla- ces we live in, and may helpus to make the cruet Prognoflicks, or prnbableRconjeetures of any mutations where the will of man is like to be the determiner. Know once but wherefeIf- iliterrfl lies, and you may know what almoil all men will endea- vour and might write a probable Prognoflication of the changes
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