-The Saints -- oaths, lying now and then, nay,invery ufury coufe-' ning, defraudingpver- reaching their brethr~n &c. • 3 3 Athirif generaU principleis, tht~t the {tjnd i/e 9 bi SeeArifl.pol-7. propagated: yet nations there have beene that have' 16 • onlybrought up the fairefr and·bettformed children ( See Bar[o of melancholie, pag,,4.6. butcafrawaythe maimed,anddeformed; and that' to avoid exceffive multitude ofpeople; caufed thei~ women tofuffer abortion, and tokili their children in the wombe. 4 It is the common cry, and contention of all creatures, for felfe con(ervation : yet from time to time there have been found fome ~ccur{ed sauls, A-. chitofhels, Nerou, I uJaffes,andothersofthat bloody crew, which have laid violent and villanous nands · uponthemfelves. · .... ·"· ·In -which cafes, the cleare light of this connnon notion, is f0r the while eclipfed by the fierce and refileife oppofitions ofthe Devill, the world, and the flefh. For they all heipe forward that horrible, and hellHh aCt.-Satan affaults, 1 With his peremp- . t0rie command, preifed many times.with fuch ry– rannicall authoritie, and unrefifrable violence, that without the greater grace, and affifrance ofGod, he ~annotchoofe but yeeld, and aman is not able to withfi:and him. 2 With;atfrighting terrours, and horrible fears, edged, and inraged with the darkneffe ofa melan– cholick humour, as it were, with he1Iifh furies, to tire him,and take away his delire to live. ·3 With grievous affiictions (ifGod fo permit) in his name, or frare, body, ormind, with this !Ugge– ftion, that there is no means of eafe and comforr, but
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