74 / ' InftruCfions for a 1·ight comforting Sect x. ~jaculations, did they fpring. from a truly broken, penitent, and .heaveuly heart, and were they the peri- . ods, and conclufions of a well-fpeot life, might bleffedly breake open with unrefifrabk power the gates of heaven; unlocke the rich treafures of immortality,and f.ill the departing foule, with the iliiniog oeames or Gods glorious prefence : but unto them fuch goodly and glorious fpeeches are but as fo many catchings and fcrablings of aman-Qyer head in water : he firuggles, and {hives for hold fa_fave himfelfe; but he grafpes nothing but water ; it is frill water which he catches ; and therefore finkes and drownes. cHAP • . XV. I. _ A jixth fa!.fo gr·ound of conficknt enduri11g miforiel. li. A conclujion of the firft DoClrine. 1 6. ~~~~N others, from a miC-guided head. 6. A mi(i~uided zea e firong zeale in will-worihip ; an fuch as in impotent,peremptorx_conceit,tbat Anciently, the D11na- they iufkr in thecaufe of God,and ti{ls. . for the glory ofReligion. This un- · '" Euphemzw. hallowed fury poffe{fed many He- ~ Ofiandtr. Cent. 4• ret1ckes of old. Vpon thisfalfe ground, the (a) Donapag.174' tijh in the fourth Century after Chria oflhed them;; b epipban. Her. So. relves willingly, and f-ff.:red death moll: couragiouOy~ . .And fo did the (b) Euphemitn, who for the multilately, the tude of their fuppqfed Martyrs, would needs be cal· Ma 1 Mabumef than!T· k 1ed._#artyrian.r. Stories alfo tell us, that Turk,t.r,Tarnv o t e ur es d . b h fi h d might by m.ning t~rJ·, an ./Vforc.r ot g t and dye.mofl: bravely an cJJriftimu, have faved retolutely for the bla1phemous opxmons of Mahomet, rheirlives,antl would And that the Af{ajin;·, a company 'of bloudy Villaines, not,chufing m_rh;r ro and defperate cut-throats who would without all dye and (a~ JtJsr~ - r. 1 fc J k " d·r. h h ; 1 ) al!o r k ·11 .1crup e or eare unuerta e to !!pate any man, w om ~:;relves, rh~n ~0 their Generall commanded them to murther, dye~ of.. ten tunes
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