- Andperpetual/ qui·de. Midnight of Herefte, Apofiafte, and Mahome- •tifme. Rome., that was anciently the glory of · the We!lerne Churches, Iyes now drowned in ·Superll:ition, foaking in damnable Idolatry, and ·plunged -over head and eares in the Dothine of Devils. Many fl:r-ong and noble Limbes of the reformed Churches in big~ Germanic have Iyen for fome yeeres in their teares of bloud,groaning zo; ·under the mercileffe tyrannie of the bloudie An– tichriftians,and have wofully received the marke of the Bu,Jt againe. Now aifuredly, it was the loathing the heavenly Manna, which made the . Lord to.utterhis Voice.•before· the Arm.ie of the Joelz;u. enemies at Pr.ague , and other places. It was their fpirituall coldneffe, which fharpened the Papifis {words againft them : It was their not entertaining the Truth, with the love and power of it, which gave the Imperiallifts power over them. 3 In a third·place, take fome helpes and re3-: medies, to become pro-fitable bearers and faving proficients by the Minifierie you enjoy; which bath thus long beene ( it is a reproachfull anq ru full thing Ifpeake) the favour of death tmtodeath unto the moft. 1 Be perfwaded to beleeve and obey..the blef- ! • fed Commandement of our Saviour himfelfe, . ' Math. 6. 3z. Seeke ye ftrit the Kin<-~dome ofGod,ana , the righteoufneff'e there()f, in the firfl: place ; and all other things [hAft he added to yo·u~. To which bee quickened, byconftdering, . · I : To what end wee came into this World. · · What. ·
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