Genera!dire7lons for 4 withherefie ; and his lifeand converfation infeóledwith ins- piety. There are twofleps andpaffages, as it were , out of the 1 ate.ofprophanenefle, into the Paradifeof.Chriflianitie ..Illuminationoftheunderftanding with:favingknowledge.' 2. Sanó}ification.of.the heart with fpeciall grace. Now the Papifl labours to pervert andimpoyfon both. For.common- ly you .Mall find the Papifl:to,be fligmatized, and branded with adouble marke : Hee receives one immediately from theBeal, a brand ofIdolatrie : AndSatan commonly fattens uponhim another fpeciall marke, .fome notoriousand fcan- dalous finne in his converfation ; as.fwearing,lying,unclean neffe, the vanities of good-fellowship , Sabbath-breaking; or fuch like. For we mull know,that Antichriflianifine can- notproduce fanólifscation;_and therefore you lhall common- lyfind every Papift to lie in forne raigning finne; howfoe- ver formali devotion is the highefl perfeó}ion attainable in that Antichrif ian flate. ByPopilh company then aman is in danger ofcorruption, both inhis understanding, and conver- fation : By the lewd, which yet make profeflion of Gods Truth, ofinfeólion with notorioufneffe in conditions : By meere.civill honeu1men, and formal! Profeffors, ofdefebtion from zeale, and forwardnefl'eatthe leaf{. a. As the Chriffian incurres by thecompanyofprophane men, evident hazzard, either ofinfe&ionwith theirfinnes, if theybe notorious; or defeóc on from zeale, and forward- neffe, iftheybe fomethingmore tolerable and formals: fo he is every home which he is in their company, without.a '.. warrantable calling, and jut} difpenfation out of the Word, and fromagoodconfcience, ingreat danger of being invol- ved within the flames of the juft cenfufìons, and inwrapt within the compaffe of thofe outward . curfes and plagues which. Gods.indignation inkindles and infli&ts uponwicked alien. All prophane men, being unreconciled toGod,areeve- rymoment lyable to all .thofe miferies and.fearefull judge- ments, which either man ordivell, any ofGods creatures, or . his owne immediate handcan bring upon :them : They are onely,refpited and refereed byGods mercy, and deferred onely
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