Chap. 31. An txpo/ftion upon tine Book of J o B. Verf. I2. 4.23 But badMaffer', becaufe they are deftru Live where they have Ignir ;MUM ter; a prevailing power. Fire bathof it felfe but one wayof coming babrt u 1 detru to an endor goingout, and that is by the utter confumption of star quell fu that matter which feeds it, or is the fewel of it; fuch a thing baths oft. is fin. Plutarch; ¡S. Gamillis. Hence note. Six (Fonfunseth ail. Fire is an unmerciful! clement, But fin is ten thoufand times moreunmercifull. Myfticall fire is moreunrnercifull then natu- rali fire. Natural! fire when it barb done its utmoft can but con.. fume corporal! things, but thismyfticall fire confumeth fpirituail things. lt confumeth and will confume the whole fubftance ofche foule(I mean not as to the being,but comfortablebeingofir)un- leffe the bloodofChrift quench it.Sin will never leave till it hash deftroyed all inone of chete two fences, either by taking away our being in thisworld, or bygiving us a moll miferable being in the world tocome. Thus 70b bath purged himfelfe by proteftation from a third fin, the fin ofAdultery; Heproceeds to a fourth, And that is in- ju&icetowards or harfh dealing with his fervants. J ;za
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