... felfc,inriching ext~mint~tion. 1o; ·that he becomes one ofthedevilsProttors~ toplead for the works ofdarkneffe; and one of the Chani- . , pioms; ofhell,t~fight indefence ?f prophaneneffe. · Now unhappdy at length decettfulneffe ofJinne , ·hath accomplifhed the meafure of hardrielfe of heart. Out of which being turned into marble · or adamant, it carves a blacke and curfed throne for the feat ofunbeleefe, that .there it may rage · and raigne, and bid defiance to·the MajefHe of . God Almighty, aad to his holy truth.. F~r from this evill .heart of unbeleefe, cloth immediately arld naturally fpring, adepar~ingawayfrom the living God. Take heedbr~thren, faith the authour to the j Hebrewes, chap. 3· u. Left at anJtiflte therebe in a?tJ .. ofyou, d?J evi/1 heart ofHIJbe/eefe, to depart 1/Wtz} ff!Q?JJ the livilig God. He therefore that bath climbed mp thus high upon thefe llelliih fiaires; beginnes now to difclaimeGod, andall incerefl: in him, to deny th~ truth ofhis promifes, accounting them no· thing bnt faire pretences, anp of his fearefull threatnings patiing_by them, Wtth feareieffe con– tempt, .as though they wer~ nothing but vaine . Scar-crowes, terrifying11nd fraying nonebut fom'e . fimple fellowes, and religious fooles ; and fo fall · quit: away fromGo~, and eve~ lpfofolJo, as they J fay, m the very afr of renounctng God, hee de.. r prives himfelfe utterly ofall poffibility of blef-f fings from him, and receives at the fame infiant 1 und.er Jeale_, as grcit-~ · mea~ure of S~tam curfed / ~ahce, as his corrupt heart i~ (-apabkv ' IB~ny fiah.. rI ,~a ~oald .not onely-trlliter~~fly 'aY:td perndidufly ,' dliCiaime and~hafldoo·nisf<>Veraigrie Liege Lord, · I 4 __ but I ~
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