comfortable walking with God. 269 nionsmouthes are continually open agaínft the Majeilie of Heaven ? With what damned oathes doe they teare, and re- crucifie the precious body of his glorified Sonne, that fits at hisowne right hand ? With what monstrous lyes, and hare- full (Landers doe they difgracehis Ambaf idours, and vilifie his chafen ? Nay, where (hall you finde one ofthofe, whahave fincerely given their names unto Chrift,wholeneglect ed in- nocency is nottrampledupon with the feeteofpride andcon- tempt ; and whofe guiltleffe fame lyes not bleeding under the mercileffe f}rokes of intemperate tongues? Howmany vere,,,eflagenas fannes and daughters of Belialdoe horribly, and with an ret}ias has dixe- tisaut rear@ ttibas, high hand prophane his Sabbaths, pollute his Sacraments, vel °a_ and turne their backes upon his Word?How many every ca (Pam boiut- where turne themfelves into barrels and beasts, even into fiticks nay, and íòmecimes into Sodomites, Hab,a. 15. by theirfwinifh drunkenneffe? How manyinclefing Nimrods, and Machiavellian Land-lords, grinde the faces of the Poore,. plocke off their skinner, teare their flejh, breal e their bones, chop them in perces at for the pot, andeate the flehof Gods people? In aword : Howmany incarnate devils walke upanddowne the Earth with hearts and hands as full as Hell, with all manner ofmifchiefe, lewdneffe, and rebellion? And yet we fee in the meane time, our gracious God beares patiently with thefe many and prodigious provocations. Thoughhe bee armed with hisowne unrefftable omnipotency ; have ever in a rea- dineffeallthe Angels ofHeaven,alt thecreaturesupon Earth, all the Devills in Hell; nay, thevery hands and confciences of fuchstubborne Rebels, to be the inflruments andexecuci- oners ofhis just wrath upon their fume : yet doth he fweetly and fairely temper, and moderate his indignation, to fee it the riches of hisgoodneffe and forbearance, and long-fuffe- a Ille quitibi in: ring, will leade them to repent snce. If AlmightyGod then, injuriatur rió whole Ma j:ftie,bleffed and glorious for ever, is chiefly wron- ged even by thy a wrongs alto, whole mildeneffe and mercy Cl rrohibuit.si `t° 0o Deus diffcrc l ismolt shamefully abufedwith the horrible ingratitude, and aros non eftei intolerable contempt of fuch as hate to he reformed, bee aedecaa, nee tel fo-wonderfully patient ; bee not thou perverfe : but rather tibi,rerat. heart
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