C A P. 6. 662 Againfl Bellarrntne, fpoken of his firft conning. And is not that an horribleday, where- in the Axe is laid to the roote of the trees, and the unfruitful! trees are hewn down, and café into the fire ? How fearefull a thing is it for men, to have one in the middeft of themwhole Fan is in his hand who will throughly purge his floore,but he will burn up the chaffe with unquenchable fire, Ma t. 3. I o. t a. But (fay you) he came not to iudte,but to be iudked. He came not indeede to judge men folemnly at his great Tribunall,as he will come at length in his Taft judgement, yet the Father hathput over all judgement unto him in the meane time, John, chap. 5. ve f. 22. Which he fhall both ex ercife one day, and doth exercife now every day againft all contemners of his truth; as wee may fee in the Jewes, who crucified him upon whom allo there lyeth at this day the molt lafting and grievous punifhment of all that ever were inflied fifice the fall of the firft man , as if he would make it to be a vifible document of that everlafting torment that the Repro- bates (hall endure in Hell fire, fo this day of Grace is accep- table to the Elea, though there be none more deadly to the unbeleevers and difobedient contemners of the grace of God, as whom the Sonne of God puni(hcth with blindneffe of minds, and hardneffe of heart, till they have heaped up the full mea- fure of his wrath, and pulled it upon themfelves in their Taft deffruftion, that never (ball have end, HebreWer, chap. to. verf. 28, & 29. Therefore nothing hindreth, but that the words of this Prophecy may bee underftood both of Chris firil cow_ wing, as alto of his Second, whereby that literal! Elias of yours, whom you would fifh out of thefe words , falleth to the ground. The fecond place you bring is taken out of Ecclefiafticus, Chapt. 44. 16. Henoch pleated God, and Was tranflated for an ex- ample of repentance to the Generations, and Chapt. 48.9.10. fpeaking to Elias,he faith; Thon that- Waft taken up With afiery Whirle-Wind, With a Charret that had fiery horfes in it, Which Wa.i appointed to reprove in due feafon, and to pacific Wrath before rage, and to convert the hearts of the children, and to fet up the 'Tribes of Jacob. I anfwer, that it was little to- be looked for at your hands that take upon you to be a Demonftration-maker , that you ffhould cite fu-ch witneufes as your adverfaries againft whom ton produce them ; do not thinke to be of xndoubted authority, and
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