nient, their eyes grow blinder, and their hearts harder, vn- till they be %holy siuen oiler to a reprobate fence. Thirdly, all the r})eafes which haue beene offered, and 3r repulfed,turne to he t: füirnonies again{} them: Eucry letTon which they have heard, may example which they haue fee ne,euery erotic ahichthey haue. fclr,eueryblefíìngwhich they haue receiued, doe cry For punithment upon them at one time or another in this life, andwill glue euidenceagaintl them, in the audience of all the world, before the Judge. ment- feateofIefusChrif#. Confutation ofthem that thinke it lawful! to turne the fe ¡3 grace of God into wantonnetfc : becaufe theLord in the ri. ches of his goodnetfe vouchfafeth to our age and people, more light and knowledge,by the miniflerie and labours of many faithful! Preachers, than he bath graunted to former times and forraine Nations, that therefore they be latisfied with thehauingof inflrudions,notwithflanding they yceld no obedience to them, nor take any pleafure in them, but loath them in their hearts, and continually rebel! againfl them. They are iuf} of the fame minds, as thole a horn le. rensy vpbraidethwith their trrifting mlyinó words, laving, the Temple ofthe Lord, theTemple ofthe Lord, this is the Temple ofthe Lord. And fo they prayfed it, and yet polluted it: t',: y put their confidence in it, and yet by peruerting of it, they make their cafe farts woric by it. That placewhich God or dayned to be as it were an habitation for himfelfe, and a fanbuary for his Seruants, they molt impioufly ruade aden oftheeues. Theydip flpale, murther, andcommit adultery, and Zer. 7. g. io. fwBaref:lfely by his name, and come andeland in that houfe,and fay, we are delivered though we haue done all thefe a6homina- tions. And theyare in the fame ftate with thole whom our Sauiour threarneth to difclayme and eaclude, when nccy Mould prefuruptuoufly challenge acquaintance with him, for his beingamong them, laying; Lord, Lord, open unto VS, 4tß - i >>,t, for wee haue eaten in thy prefence, and thou haft taught in our freezes : Rut hee'hallfay, I tellyou, I !nowyou not whenc, yeo are : Departfromme allleeworkersof iniquitie. Il A1 4:
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