F.rceedina SidífHlna ofSias. it be true, that Goddoth not aïi%.jescome upon wen for fuch little fins, it rnayi.be to make known his Patience and long-fuffering. Per- haps theLorddoth let others go on for a long time ingreater fins : but yet God by a few fuch examples lothdeclare to all the worldwhat the evil ofthe leaf': fin is, and how his difpleafure is out againfl the leali fin. Ifhe doforbear,that is tobeattributed to his patience and long-fuf- fering, but not to the littlenefs of the fin, or the littlenefsofthe evil that is inthat fin. This is a Fourth. Fifthly, A fifth thing wherein God manifefis his difpleafure againíl fin, it in thole dreadful and hidìoos judgments that theLordexecates abroadin the worldthat wehave theflories ofin the scripture, and all Ages : As that God fhould come and drowna whol worldexcept eight perlons, all the whol world fwept away anddrowned. And fo that God fhould command fire and Brimfione to come down fromHeaven, and burn and con- fume whol Cities, Sodom andGori:orrah., and the Cities adjoyning ; yea, andall themen,womcn, and children, but onlyLot, and thole few with him. And fo the fire to come down upon thofe Captains and their Fifties, 2 Kings, I. And the Earth fwallowing up Corah, Dathan, andAbiram. 1 There is no Age but bath fome one or other dreadful example ofHis Judgments againfl Sin. Thewrath ofOod is revealed from Heaven a- ', ain all unrighteoufnefs. Now Brethren, ! though force people have fcaped, and thole rnanifeflations ofGods Judgments are not fo ge- neral V IIn o
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