Bolton - Houston-Packer Collection BV824 .B65 1634

---- I . / Worfe dt:tn 1 one polfelfed . I bedily by Sa· tan. . - . - . . ~ - TheSaints ofhis mofl: righteous and holy lawes; ~hou fraine~ ,Jhat glor~e continually, for illuihatio.n whereor, rhou wertcreated,and planted in this~orld. Thou . fuckefr venome even from the very mercies ofQod,t ·and the minifierie oftheword. How fwd!ed and fllll .then offpirituaU pridearrthoulrom lufr,drun~ kennetfe, andfuchdamned wayes, by which .thou infecretl others, and invenomeft all about thee by lewd example and ill conditions. . l The toads venome canbut onely kill thehody ofaman : but thepoifonofc.hy finnes will plague thy foule for ever, and frrangle it with eternall hor:- rour. . . 3 When thetoad is dead,there is for ever ane~d ofall ill incident tarthat,creature : but thydeat& is . ~hebirthofthy'miferie, and beginningof endlef{~ 'woe. Oh ! how then wilt thou deftre and.wilh, ·that thoubadfr beeneabeaft, or bird, -or anycree– pin.gworme, that thou mightft never more have any beiag ? As the Poet brings in the Magician, · when the covenanted time of the giving of his fouleto Satanwas expiring, crying i:othis.purpo~-; 0 Pythag1ra-r, I n·oulJthy MeTtp.{ux_~~tnr now JVtre tru~, &c. that I mightbe turned intoabird,Br beaft, or cxha~.o latiln:~ &e. .· _ . · , - . 2 · Hadfr thou feene that man in Luke -8. out ·of whom Chrift Jefus cafr [p many devils, that for their immber,theirname was called, Legion,ve.3.0:. (Now a Legion is commonlycompu~ed to .he fix thoufand fix f.u.mdred fixty and fix,) tfthou qadft looked upon him all naked, as he "Yas·;pauntingt~e · graves', _aridde;_rne places, cearmg 1i1 peeces. ht~ · - chame~

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