Infiruflions for a right comforting; Sect.%. their hed-rt; asthePro~hetfpeakes,Hif-7.14· Their earnefr and early crying in this latt extremity, is onely becaufe, Their feare u CQme upon themfU defolation, . 11nd their -dfftruOion M a whirlewinde. When they. caft out thdr C<mfiderations for comfort, T t is not the· whole Creation .can poffibly helpe them; . for they muil: ftand or fall to the Tribunall of the everlaflinrr . Ged, mighty and terrible, and Creator of the endJ of th~ - . Earth. If they looke up to C o D the Father ; . that Pro, t. 24.. 26. comes prefently into.their heads with much horrour, ..and quite kills their hearts: Becaufe Hee hath called all our life long-, and all that goodly time wee refufed; Hee ~ill laugh now at our calamity, and mt;ck!_ when our feare zi come. Jefm Chrift, as they firengly conceive, and unmooveably conclude agaititl: tbemfelves, .bath now to them for e\'er clofed up His 'wounds as it were, and will not afford them one drop of His bloud ; becaule thev have fo often, by comm,ing unworthily, fpilt it in the Sacrament, · perfecuted Him in-His r~nembers, and defpifed Him in ~he miniG.ery.· The Heffed Spirit, becaufe in the Day of Vifitation they repelled all His inw~rd war· nings and holy motions, prderring Satans impure , fuggeftions, before'His facred infpiratbns, cloth now 'in their owne a·ckriowledgem<:!nt, by the equity of a jul.l: proportion, in this Day·ofvexation, leave them to e'ate the fruit of their former wilfulneife,and reape the reward of their owne wayes. Thus thefe forlorne wretches are difclaimed, forfaken, and abandoned ef , · Heaven and earth,God and Man ; of all Fhe comforts 0 In "'h:tt fenfe de- in this life, 'an'd bleffit~gs· of the World to come. And fpaire is rhc grea£efl fo by finall defpairingof Gods mercy, the 0 greatefl: fin: tor 1t is not limp:y offins, they rnofl: unhappily ,1nd curfc:dly follow IttdM fo Ever the lllOtfthe worfl cf men, into the darkeft .and moll damned c:xcellenr the. nooke in Hdl. . 2 .~ '-· Others die fenfelef1y and ~lockilhly. They de· ~~ Y lneane themfelv {J; upon tlie1r d y1~1g Beds, ~s though . ~~
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