e ' · Setl'.z. upon fome abominable boforne-fin~; at1d then pro:. portion Otqt to the ever!afting God, migbry lfr:d terrible Creator, and Commander of Heavc:m and Ef.lrth, OJ:l'o ly fome Putward religious formes and conformities; and tho{e alfo fo farte onely, as tl1ey hurt not our temporall happine!fe, but may confifl: with the enti _r enJoyment of $(,me inordinate lu!t, pleafLlte, profrt or preferment ? P{<?digious folly, nay, ft1ry to their owne foules ! Tfus v~ry one mo!t bafe, and unwor;. thy conceit of fo great a God, and his due att, ibuti• <111s, meriteth jufl:ty exclUGon from the Kingdotne of Heaven, with the fqo/ifo YittJvs, fot ever. My Counfell therefore is; when the fpititua!l Patient hath paffed the tempefl:uous Sea of a troubled Confci- , en<.:e, and is now upon termes of taking a new courfe, That by all meanes Pie take heed, that Hee runne not upon this Rocke. It u htter to he ko~r;o/d, ·then Lu/zy-wll:r'me: and that th~ m'ilk! /Joile over, then bte ~ilf:w. . Secondly-, thecherilh- .1· Tho it ~e an ordinary, yet.it is a d~l!lge:ous ~nJ in<> tborcfceds·: fowen. utterly unrott1g etrout at1d deceu, To CbriC~lVe, that tJ · all is ended, when the affliCted p'arty is mended ; and bath teceived e'af::: and enla-rgentent from the terrible pl'elfures of. his trot1b-led confcie-t1Ce. 1 o thinke, that after tbe tetnpell: of ptetent tcttour, and rage of guil~ tineffc. bee a1Iayed ~nd <>vet-blowne, tliere needs no mote to bee· done. · As thd theNew-btrth were n6t ever infaHibly and inlepatably attended with new- . obediertc~. As.tho, when on-ce the foule is foundly and fivingly lltucke thorow, huC1ible'd, and prep:-.•- red for (hfijt, by theterrifyingp·owetof the·taw reveal in~ the fou!ene'ill: -of fin ne, and fier~endfe of divine Wt<>.. th, Whfc'h fet drl byth:e f)iritof6onda_~e, . e :See ForbEr ufotm cap. is able; ltke a mighty c thunder to breake and tea re. in Ii·.ll/ the R.ev. v. l. pietes th~ irbrt !it'lewe's of tht tfiofr flubbotne and ll:onie-bejtf, t'here followed not hearty lhowres of repentant tea.res, hever re ~c dried up, untill.our ending · ~ houre
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