I and perpetual/ quide. _ , readineife, with who!e Armies of Plagues, and Vengeance, to be revenged upon him, fordisbo– nouring God, by ignorance in his \tVord: Y:et hee fees none of all this. Hee neither knowes, feeies,orfufpe6ts thefe many dangers,withwhich he is incompaffed; but goes 011 plodding, with· .ungroundetLeonfidence; and wicked fecl1ritie, in theway ofwickedneffe and deftru6tion: hee paf– fctb , with much defperate boldnelfe, through many dangerous and fearefull wayes·; wherein, at every frep,hewounds·'his Corifciencewith one finne or other in the rne~ne time, and at length falls headlong,and fuddenly, body and foule, into the Pit·of Hello This is certainely the rniferable and wofull itare ofall thofe that live in fpirituall Darkenelfe,andare ignorant in Gods Word,and the wayes of godline_lfe. It may be they may flatter, pleafe,and perfwade themfelves,that their .cafe is good enough~ ·that, when they heare of Heaven, and thofe "everlafting ple~fiues at Gods right hand,they tbinke notwithfianding t'har they · , {hall come thither <Jt length; though theyknow never a foot of theway;take no dire6tion by the– Light of Gods Word, nor fer one fkp, bynew obedience , towards that place of bleffednelfe. But ind~d and truth they doe very fearefully de– ceive andover-ilioot themfelve!:: And their cafe Simile~ is juff, as if a man fhould fall afleepe upon tbe ed.ge of f0me high ar.d fi:eepe Rocke; and there dreamc.\ that he is made a King, attended with a :glorious Traine of Nob-il,irie, furnifhed with : fumptuous Pallaces, and fiatcly Buildings~ en- ' (d) ·ricbed : i
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