Part 2, Chap. ) • AffltEled Conftiences, fed God ! Is thine holy Booke become(execrable blaf- x. Reprehended. phemie !) aperve~ter, d!ftraCler, af!d e~poyfone~ of .mens Soules ; whtch-bemgthe glonous tffue ofthme ·- owne infinite underfl:anding, was purpufrly created , a~ a mofi pretious (r) Panacea, an univerfall medici· (r) ~A~ rro wl.r7~ nall frore-houfe for the cure of all fpirituall maJa.iies; d"i:v}:_oc efl,a fn:i1all• an inexhau1:ed treafury of all found comfort, true joy, du ommb1M morbl4· peace, and tefrefhing! Now the Lord .rebuke thee Satan, and returne as dung upon thine owne face this villanous, bafe, and wicked £launder, which by thy gracele{fe infhuments then labourefl: to cafr upon the glorious face ofChrifl:ianitie, the incomparablefweetneffe of the wayes of grace, and that One neG·effarie thing. I have knowne,wnen the ondy wife God,hath . fi1ff.:red for ends fcene and feeming gocd to his heavenly wifedome the hideous, and raging humour of melancholic, to darken the native clearnell~ ofthe animall fpirits in the braine, requifite to a due difcretion of things apprehended; and to blunder, and diforder the objech,and operations ofthe phantafie in hrs deateft child, even to difiraction, and breaking C'Ut into that inordinate paffion,againfr reafon; I fay then, the concurrent cry and clamour of the enemies to the power of Gedlindfe to be : Thu it u now to he fo 6ook!'(h, to follow Preachers fq. m~tch, to hemore ho(J th4n their neigh/Jour.r, never to have drme inflrvitJg ofGod: Her fo mllch reading the Scriptures, and fuch poring upon precife bookes (fo tney call thofe, whichmoft pierce the confcience, and guide th; clearliefl: in the holy path) bath made her ·fiarke mad :The Puritan u noW hefides her jelfe,&c, Now I fay againe. thel.ord J,:ebuke theeSatan, who fits with fuch extreme malice and Soule-killing folly in the hearts and heads offuch miferable men, whom thou fo fottilhly hood-winkes, and hardens to the height, for a mofl: defperate down· fall,and horrible confiifion at lafr. . Were now the glorified Sou~e ofthat bleffed Saint 0 confulted
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