3 3 z Verf. z -s . n Expo f tion upon the flee of ]` o B. Chap. 36. any mans difchar ,e from guilt upon either account. And though there may be force featons wherein a duty may be laid by or o- mitted,yet there is no feafon wherein any iniquity may be chofen or committed. T Secondly , We cannot bz excufed, as to Difcretion. We are fools, and act below, not only gracious but rational men , if we chufe iniquity to avoyd any affliaion, whether that affliction or fuffering, be, fir[i, our own; or fecondly, the faltering of others. ifl, though neatly related,& very near to us,w=tfe,children, &c. Secondly,though many, never fo many, a whole Nation, a whole world, the Church. I believe that açl'ertion of St Augutine will be found found and Orthodox Divinity; Better let the world pe- rifli, than attempt to jave it by telling an officious ly.. The evil of fin, is fo bad that if any good could come by it ( which of it fell cannot ) it were not worth the having : Some faid in the Apoffles times,& they, faid it of the Apofiles,(Rom. 3. 8. ) Let usdo evil-that goodmay come of it. Cod by his infinite power, wifdome ,. and goodnefs, brought good out of evil, even falvation to man out of the fall of the fittl man but if any man,,, or fort of men, (hall projea the obtainment of good by the doing of evil, the Apof}le in the farne place bath given them this doom, Their damnation is juft ; nothing is more Iufl or righteous, than their damnation, who hope to ger good for them1elves or others by doing evil, which is it fell tnjt(lice and unrighteoufnefs; O 8'.
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