300 Genera/1 dirglions for a paexemergagg.....1. withdivineknowledge : 'but yet neither holy, nor ever true. ly humbled. 2. Comparing himfelfe withothers, who are Satans out- ragious revellers, in refpeek of his morall moderation, and fomething more civill carriage. 3. ArguingGods fpeciall love and laving favour, from his outward profiverous !late, and bleffings in temporal! things. So the fatting Oxe might thinke withhimfelfe, I lhall furely live ; becaufe I feed in this greene rich Pa. {hire. 4. Concluding from crofts, hat he is a finne , andnot a Ward; thathe bathhis puniihment here as they fay, &c. whereas they are but the Tuft effeas of Gods fecret curie, blowing upon his counfels , dealings, and undertakings for' hiscovetoufneffe ' unconfcionableneffe , hatred to bee refor- med; and except he truely turne in the meane time, will groove thevery fore-taftes, and pieces, as it were, of hellifh torments. 5. Sometimes, nothing but felfe-love ferves the divels tunic , to locke up a carnal! heart in this fecuritie and caufe . leffe confidence ; efpecially in fome extremely ignorant pea- pie ; who eafily beleeve that which theydefire: and haveno other ground of their going to heaven, but becaufe they would have it fo. 6. Common conceits and corrupt Notions, compounded ofgroffe ignorance,andPopifh folly ; that a mans good mea- nings , and good doings , as' they ignorantly fpeake ; nay, and as fome have laid, his day-labour will helpe him to Ilea= ven,and ferve his turne for falvation. And if any ofthefe lot- tifhcavillers bequeftioned, and challenged for the unfound. neffe of his fpirituall itate;he willbe ready, with abfurd rude- neffeand irkeforne clamour, tobreake out into fuch brags as thefe: What tell you mee of thefe high points, or trouble me with this new learning ? I was never asked thus much before in all my life, and yet the time is to come thatever our Parfon threatned tokeepe me from the Communion I doe no man wrong: I pay every man his owne : Iam neither thiefe,
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