96 The Saintr they be _taken heed of, and carefully avoided, will lead us intomifery andconfufion. . , I~ The firfr fl:ands in exceffe_, it is credul!ty.:Ma•. ny though they be .meere worldlings, llaves unro pleafure~, fold unto finne, and fwim downe the current of the times, ladenwith corruptions, and many.finfi1Itvanities,·yet t-heywill needs threape kindnetfe upon God : They would gladly ·b~e thought to have faith in Chrifr, aud hope of falva. rion, though they were neverhtlmbled for .their finne·s, .theirhe~tts never broken and bruifed wirh tertours of the Law, and remor(e of cohfcience; . though they never repented, never fpent-t:earefor their lewdnetfe pafr, never once groaned,<>r-fighed ·under theburqenof theircoF._t:lJptions,yet theype– ~ remp.torily perfwadethemfeiv.es that they fhall-be . ·faved,at]afl: ; ,and when all comes·ro all, thatGod will be very loth to cafr away any of his creatures, afld tottlrne them~nto Hell.But except we be ftark . Atheifrs,and beJeeve.not the truth ofGods threat. , · nings ; .or bla1j>hemeusmifcreants, ·to ihinke that God'is as man, that he ihonld lie,we may affure our, , felves thatthe wickgdjhallk turned into heJI,.-anJ allthe pcopkthtttforgetGod,Pfo1.9.I7· At thefmof<!vaNijhdh (faithDavid)folhalt thou drive thenMway; tllidtJ!f!aX meltethbefOre thefire, fojha!l the wicf<!dpertfhat thepre· fo»ceof God, Pfo/.68.2. Bef.(}ld, faith.Malachie, chap. 4; 1. the dafcommeth t!Jatjhallhttrne tU an-Oven, and.dll r theproHd,Jea,andallthttt doewickd!Jjha/Jbeftubble,atJd :theday t'hat commethfl?allhurne the'!! ttp, foiih the Lord .Of hofts, and./htJll kave them fJeither root 110' Of41Jch, And God hirrifelfe thus fpeaketh,by the fame Pt:o- . · pher,
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