andperpetual/ (juide. 237 ~ ·abandon us, to the full fwing and fway of our ~ owne corn1ption, and not either bridle us by his re!haining Spirit, or ble!fe us wirh' his fanQ:i– :fying Spirit; wee might every oneofus~ become as bad as Iu!ian the Apofl:ata,who did malicioq– fly abjure Chrill:; and as Judas, \Vho did perfidi– oufly b~tray him•. Naturallyweewould wallow· in Linne , without cbecke of Confcience, or controlment by the terror of the Iudgement to come. . . . 4 But if hee cannot arme himfelfe againfl: 4-- the terrors of God, and truth of his Word ; but that he mu fl: nee_ds acknowledge the one, and beleeve the other: Why then, in a fourth place, with much fpightand m~lice, he flyes in the face of Gods Minill:ers, Embaffadours, which are his . tormentors before his time : And thar, Fir£1:, Either againfi his Preaching, or againfl: his Perfon : as, too obfcure, or too plaint! ; too cold, or too boifierous; too particular, too per– fon~Il, too precife;roo .imperious; too-tart, and terrible; .too full of ·Iudgement; tending to Se– ditioo, againft the State, or the like. And there– fore he labours, not onely with his owne heart,to hreed within himfelfe a dill:afie and diftonceit · of it; but alfo puts to his hel!Jing hand, to ,ftay ·and flop the free cou~fe . and cmre~t of i.t from others. He cannot abtde to have hts fweet linne frrucke at frill, and·£Hll to have his Confcience · grated upon, by, the Minifterie of the Word; and therefore .he does what he can, to abaJ1don ~ and abolifh it. When I tremics Sermon,denoun-· · · dng._ _.·
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