I ~lh The lJiiclud dJi»g, driven·awayShte n.T~profane; a·s if the devil could dwell in none but thofe whofe: name is legion. In fcripture ~ccount, ail who are not righ-· tcous, in the manner hereafter ex·plained, are reckooedt wicked. And therefore the text divides the whole world into• ty-ro forts, tht righteouJ and the rwick:ed; and ye !hal~ fee the· fame thing in that otfier text, Mal. iii .. 18'•. "l hen-Jhali J'e" 'elurn, and difcern ·bi.fween the righteous and t.'Je wick-ed. ' Wherefore, .if ye be not righteous, ye, are wwked. If ye· have not: imputed righteoufnefs, and alfo an implanted-. l'ighteoufnefs, or holinefs-) ifye be yet in your·natural fiate, unregenerate, not united to Chrifi by faith: howfoever mo ._ r-aJ, and hlame-le-~s io· the eyes of men, your conv·erfation, tna~ be~ ye are th~ wicked, who fl:all be ddven away in·, then wtckednefs, tf death find you m that fiate . Now, . · FiRsT~~ As -to the meaning of this phrafe dtriven away ;· there a;e three things·in it.: the wi.ck<:d fuall be taken away; fudden!r, . violently, and irreliflibfy. Firfl, Unr.enewed men fuall be tak-en away fodden!y at tieatb. . Not that a-ll wicked men die fuddenly; .nor that· they are all wicked,. who die fo, God forbid -~ But, ( r.) Death commonly .comes upon them unexpeCted, and fo fur– prifeth th'em ; _as the deluge came furp:rifiogly on. th~ oler 'World; tho~ ' they were for~warned of it long before it came :. and as 1-ra-vaiJ comet h on tz.woman rtv#h chif.d-, with furprifiog . fuddenty; although looked for and expeCted, I Tlrejf.v. 3·· Death feizeth them, as a creditor do'th his debtor, to hale bim· to priforr, Pfal.lv~ i'5· an<,!'thct·t when the.y are not· aware. - Death comes in,. as a thief at the window~ and :finds them full ofbufy thought! about this life,' which that 1 _"1/erxday-perijh (2.) ·Death' alwayS'feizeth them unprepared– for it: the old houfe falls down about theit ears, before: rhey haY.e another·provined; , .lVhen ·death calls them to t_he· .i~<fo-or, they bav·e not where t~~ ray, their head~; unlefs it be.: ' on·;a ne~ of fire and brimfione. The foul a-nd body a-re as– it W~;e hugging one anotl:iet· io mutual embraces':; 'When death comes like a whirlwind, and feparates · them. (3~} Death hurries them ·away in a momenno ·defiru&ion, and · makes. a· mo£1: difmal change-: th~ man, for the moffpart, . never knows where he is·, till in hell he l!ft up- his eyes., L,uke.. ;<vi. 23 . The floods ofw~ath fuddenlyoyerwhelm hisfou! F t.. alld ec.e.he.is aware... he-is pJuq~d in -the b~ttomlefs. pjt. . / . Et~
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