~·. /--------~----------------------~· . (e/fe~inriching exa~ination~ - 105 darkneffe ; firh the end of thefe without repen- · · ranee and amendment"' is moll: certainly, if we be– leeve theWord ofGod, everlafiingwretchedne£fe and damnationbothofbody.;~nd foulc, in the lake thatburneswith fire andbrimfrone. . A third by-path isgifpairfulneife. 1 know de· · fpaire is properly and directly oppofed to hope and not to faith: But I handle ithere,becaufewhen aman is humbled and call: downe by the terrours of.the LawJ and with a broken and bruifed heart fighing,.. and fOrrowfull in his legall repentance ; if he miife of the right path that leads to the ri<.h · , ' mer,_ciesof: God, and predous proll!-ifes of falva- · tion re_vealed in theGofpell,ar.d fhining in the face - .of Chrill: Jefus, he may be fearefulJy fwallowed • ·up and drownoo in the gulfe of defpaire.-Now prefumption, though it be a .OOI,ltrary .courfe to– ward damnation, aryd quiteoppofitc to ~hat which is by defpaire ; yet it is the dire& and hye-way that leads todefperation, when men .in the-dayof, '~heirvifttation,and tiale_o£grace, are,calted.apon 'i hythe loud cries and earnell: invitation of the Mi- - nifl:ers, to leave their ·immoderate love of die . world, anq finfull courfes, and to lay fafi: hold hi time upongrace and falvation ; and.yet foraU this · as the deafe adder ftoppeth his eares, and will not heare the voice of. theenchanter, thoughbee bee mofr expert in charming, 'Pfat. 58: bec:mfe thereby · he would not ;be refrrained from difp.erfing his poyfon : So theywill ndt'enrertainet~e pow.et of theWordinto their hearts and affeCtions, though never fooften and inftandy urging un~o it,'.left · ' thereby ·
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