comfortable walking with God _if 43. theWorld, prophanationofthe Sabbath, difobedience to Pa- rents, fell fearefully into a defperateknot of lewd compani- ons, then toAle- houfe haunting, after,to gaming, at }aft, to the gallowes:and therefore thou advifeff him to takeheede in time : tolet fuch wofullprecedents of finne and fhame Rand 1h11 inhis eye,to flayhim from breakinghis neckeat thebote tonneofthe fame flaires : for if bee continue the reinesbut a while longer upon the neckeof his rebellious nature, and Hill hold on fo defperatelywith filchwild colts , the divels Dromedaries to the fame exceffe. of riot, bee (hall find no morepower inhimfelfe to flay, untill from the height offn, he fall into the bottome of hell, then a man having begun to runne downe the fleepefl hill, can flop before heecomes at thebottome. He that layes his foundation with fire-work; muff looke in theend tobe biowneup; he thatpremifespro- phannefl"e and rebellion, ¡hall be fure toconclude in curfed- neffe and confufion. a. Ofpraifing God for the ruine, and rooting out oftome implacable impenitent aperfecutor; thus, or in the like man- a Non deruntHc- alter : A remarkable vengeance bath feized upon filch a noseáámfinuhoc fcbrnefull caitiffe, whohath beene a perpetuall bloudy Goad tempore, quango in the fides of the Saints all his life long. Vpon which occa- cue&cc1 ; ga'ta lion thou difcovereil unto thy friend manypaffages and plots velum eft Mud, of his crueltie and hate againfl the Kingdomeof Chriffand pie v1cc°nun° his preciouspeople, and that purpofelÿ tominifler matter Chria°, perracu alto unto others , ofmore heartily magnifying theGlory of tti onp pnci pter- GodsIuflice; which at length hath happily flrooke downe recutionem , non Antiochata with an incurable, and invifible plague ; eaten up VIS pie vivere in Herod with vermine; made Pa/Ur a terrour tohis friends; nh'pj S o Zedechiah to runne from chamber to chamber to hide him- ` felfe. For you muff know, that the hearts and tongues of all good men, and friends to the Gofpel, are wont to bee filledwithmuch glorious joy, andheartieft longs ofpraife, at the downefall of every dogged oppofite , when the re- venging handof God, not without fpeciall terror,hath tum- bled from the topof malice and pride any Antichriffian and enraged enemy, So the Iewes feafled, after Havnan was hanged,
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