,'i 'The Saints butalfo devote himfelfe, and fweare his fervice to .his firil Mafrers mortalland profetfed enemie ;you knowhe·d~th incontinently cafi: himfelfe from all tho~ lands, offices) p~tfeflions and commodities, _which he formerly ·enjoyed, while he continued in allegeance to his former Mafl:er. So jufr is his cafe) whoby infidelity falsawayfrom theGodof heaven. He then utterly deprives himfeif~ of all poffibiliry of any manner of bleffings, belonging . either to happinefie or llolinetfe. Hee can neither love, feare, honour or obey Golf from whombee · looketh, for neither good nor evitf, nejthenre~ ward nor r;uriHhment. , I have Jtaid the longfr in difcovering thisby. path, becaufecerrainly a great part of the world is ·fearfully taintedwith afpice of.Atheifm~,andpof. fell: ofagreatmeafure of infidelity and unbeleefe. For if mendidc~rtainly beleeve the truth·of.Gqds Word, that he will recompence and rewardevery man:according to his workes, as his bleffed .fpirit tels us by Saint Paul, Ron~: 2.6, 7,8. 'fo.t/Jem'll'hohj -~oiJtinlltJnce ilhl'elt dPing ftekg glo'rj) _ani hopo11r) .atJJ iflltJJOrtalifJ~ etemaltlife : But itNt'rJ tl}tnt tht~t. aruon,. tentio111tznadifobey the truth._, t~llrl obe.J,tMrighteoufne{{e; ittdignati.QtJ ~?J(l ·wratk> J fatif, m~~-beleeY:~d this, . howwere it•p.offible that;: they_ d~dl: follqw every one the vanity anddevifes ofhis owne heart, and ·lie in the ,Common fafhibns a~d::c,or-rttptiops of ~he · ~\vorld ?nfom:'iJ:llyjl;lg; fQI.Jl~jqfwt;~ring_,, [o.m~ in ,· ,dJJtnk~.nf.Jtlfe, .f®e in:An~le*nne:tr~~ ~[olll,Cjp.Sab- . ·o~hb~eakifig,- .fo.me in.wq~ldlinetfe, fol'(le)~Ufu– ryandoppt:elfian; inone-~ o~~e~fuch worke,qf · · · · --~ - dark- : . ~.~~~8·~~--~- ~· ~~~~~~~~~y~----------- ·
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