u6 lnftruffirms for aright comforting Sec\:.2. pardon:But wherein they have finned,and what their finnes are,they cannot,or will notfell. And how is it poffible the Phyfitian iliou~d help him, who <.'nely faith ; hee is not well, but will not tell him where ? I have fometimes ,.ifited tl~ofe, who being preif~d to a fight and /.:nfc of tl:eir Hnnefulneife, and curfednefie, upon purpofe to fit them for Chrift, liave acknowledged in general!, that they were finners, butdefcending to the part~ culars ofthe Law, (which was horrible to heare) juftified themfelves throughout. · Of which extreme f,;irituall mifery, and prodigious madIgnorance of which, ndfe, Ignorance (though I know Satan manageth that~ <k) Id ·d d d" and all other advantages with all the malice, and cunccrr ;,;:.i !~;u ;~a~- ning he can poffibly, to, the overthrow offoules)is the ffllf:Chrifi i dotirina_;; principall ground ; the prime, but peftilent occaficn : nuUi unquam pop11to I fay~ Jgnorance, which though it bee not perhaps fo Rnt,e propofttam cfl'c, much talked of,taxed,and taken to heart as others, yet qttam /it ea, quam nos • 1 1 • (j f h ·k· d F ·· · n. quotidil auelimTa in ~sa ou_c~-cryt~g mne o ~ e ~ng ome, or tqs a mo~1. e"tefiimoftriJ: mcred1ble th1ng, and of mfimteama2.ement,howum· -si projet~o ~9n ktt- verfally it" raignes in this glorious (~)noone-tide ot l·m.mr~ allqrs sd al•~~ the Gofpell !. And therefore mu~ needs provokeGod bonz ,(14b (GJ[~ : el&epta mightily and haO:en the rtmovinu of our candleftickf, btu ttlm ciara verbzlu. . ' • d 6 . .. ··- d h ce;ca debet 11os 1Jel fo!a And .m the meane time, befi. es ·m~n~ ~o~fan t at ciJli(~lari. .§0u cfl, qui dr~a4full doome at la fr. 2. The f. I q , 8; 1t bt:mgs upon nun ga11det, &rcr.rea- moft (more is the pitty and lham~,. dpecia1l}'fo gloritlll',(ltm.e:r tencb~!se- ous beames of a bleAed Minifrry ll:linint; about' us) ducttN? m /ttmnzsiam thefe two ftpeciall mifchiefes · which at this timei ( ln•em? At ~tos qut a- · . • · • • _ liquar:dofitbn-;ufijcaui~ on::ly mentiOI~, bcc~uf:: -t~ey ferve fitheO: f?r t!lufir2• mrMia tenebru, !ongc tlOn of the pomt. Ftrft, tgnorant people fbckmg fafi horr~bitijfimu, 1Mito in his clutches, ftand all, as they fay,at the Divels mer• t!Rnorcm lum,? ha~c·cie and de\"otion to do with them what he will· evc:n m/15, So!tm 1/lllllrltm ' · ' • ' illum]ufi:ti.e. Holloc.as a poore , ~'elpldfe I:atnbe In the bloody paw _ofa in loh~n.c • .s. p. ,R 9 • Lyon, or a f1lly Wren m the ravenous claw of a·Ktte; (I) 'P~ri!~zo.ra'Jti.t":a· to 11alh alild mangle their wofull foules at his pleaft1rc:, Sum a n~fc~rntthr~j m· with a curfed variety of ( 1) innumerable linnes; they, 1111merabllta prrrerran· in the meane titn~, which is the perfed:ion oftheir mitHr mala. Aug Toa' •7• c. . l ·f . r_ 1. h · ll L., . 1'ag.1.lib. 6• ,~ntra l' e- ~ry, nelt :ter .::armg nor Ke mg any urt at a ,l.}y r~a- ~ ~
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