·'The Sair#s '-1~. 8 .. ............. ___ . . -hellion, in the dayes of our finfull vanities and . ' ' ! ' fraile-delights. · · z. We wonder at ,the firangepatienceofour ~ mercifull God, in that it bath pleafed,him to cover :and conceale from the eyes of tke world, many 1 hatefull abominations done byus in fecrer, :rnd to keep us reputed as unf.oorted and blameleife before men, when as we have deferved for them to have beene utade an aflon!fhuJe?Jt anti hijiltg, and b)-word to aUabout ih ; nay, perhaps to have beene hanged up as fpefracles of,iliarne and horror to the whole world, of exampleand terrour to all pofrerity. 3. -But we fpecially f-afrening o~rconfideration · itlron that happy and holyworkeof our newcrea,. . tion, tothe everlafHngglorious admiration ofhis grace·and goodneffe, we mufchowby the mighty power of his fanctifying fpirit, he.e bath pulled us ·. m1t of the mouth of that devouring ·Dragon, afJd ; [natohed 11NU hraJJds out·ofthefire~ to ma-ke us frarres : ·mHeaven. What a marvellous mercy, kindneffe and bounty_ is this, ; thinke we-withour !elves that wee fhou.ld ._bee Jingled out by the power of the Word, and marked by the hand of GOd for falva- .tion, when many hundreds aboutnsare never bet– ter for the Word all their life l0ng, and at length pel'ifh et;erlaftingly. That wee which herecofore . . have beene perhJpsas miferable, blinde, andpro· phane as the worfr, iliould nowbewa-ilied;be fan– ctified, be jufl:ified, In the name ofthe.lord-Ie{Nt, -dnd by thefpirit ·of o11r God ;.iliould bee now like afew · cleare fighted, amongfr a throng of'blindemen; Likcthe por(donof-IactJb.in-Egypt, fairely 'inlight- • ned --------~--------~--------------~------~
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