Bolton - Houston-Packer Collection BV824 .B65 1634

76 , - . 'Ihe Sai·nts fore ·are matter of much vexation urtt.,o them ; and hereafter-will bewitndfes aga·in-fi: them, and eat,e their flelh -as it were fire; as I ames fpcakes ? How rna.ny fpend their wits,. their fpirits., their time, that they may become fome-body in the World, and dimbe by indirea and uulawfull meanes, and fi:eps unto thofe hig·h places, from whence hereafter they rnuft be hurled wuh greater confu– uon,and amore fearefull downe-fall, mto the Pit of Hell ? _How many wa!l:e their wealth, weaken theidtrer,Igth, confume their marrow, .fill their bones with rottenndfe,and their bodies wirh dit: eafes, with Iuffand uncleannelfc, with following the whorifh wtJi'»ttn, whofe pAths lead unto the dead; with·tarrying long at theWine,.;and pouring in of fl:rongDrinke: for which,at length,they !haii be fure to be filled with drunkenndie,andwith farrow,-even with the Cup of dell:ruchon, and trembling ; they {hall .drinke of ir deepe and large, ~ndwring it out to the dregges? Howun– wearied .have Idolaters ever beene in the wicked worfhip'of-their falfe gods ? And many Here– tikes, in the falfe worfhip of the true God ? In ·tnrull:ing towards Hell, they neither fpared cofl, nor charge; loffe, nor l-abour : They have beene prodigall bothpf lives,and living-; ·-of bloud,and children. You know, amongCl: the Iewes , fame mingled the rufull cryes of their dcare!t children with Muficke and melodie, left they fbould be moved to compaffion,-while they were cafl: into the fire,tobeburnedup in,facrHice unto the Idoll Moloch. Scribes and Phari[es compaffe Sea :and Land_,

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