fent with them : and then they take to proceedfrom enuy,what focucr is fpoken again({ them. Terror ofconceited perfons, which proceed on wilfully in their wicked waies,andnoman can reclaimc them.They are wife, they tro,v, hauing hued fo long, to knowwhat is good for them- (elues,they arenot now to learn how to ferueGod, and be failed. But the wifeGod calleth them foolifh men : hee faith that their [freight way is crooked, and their feir waie is dangerous, and that the itfues thereofare the waiesof death. When they take them. feluesto be happyheiudgeth them miferable ; when they look for welfare, hee threatneth woe : when they prefumeof a bief. fing,he pronounceth,andwill accordingly execute a curie. Here- offpcakcth 1[4141,, Woe so them that arewife in theircame clef, and prpatientin theirownelight : They niake thcrnfclucs odious to God; they flip from repentance, theyGiun reformation, they runinto def}ruc`iion. Confutation of them that imaginea good meaning towards the feruice ofGod,and their own faluation tobe fu(frcient, what- foeuer their mcanes bewhich theyvie,, If their mind be tohaue their way good, they thinke it cannot bee euill, iftherebee a wil lingncffe that it (houldbe flrcight,they ref} allured that it will not becrooked. But litheopinion andwilksofmenbe offuck force to recii6c their waits, what way wouldnot lead tofaluation ? we (hewedbefore that Inch as murdered the Saints of God thought . to ferue God, and bee facedby it. Why then was not Paul in as good cafe before his conuerfion as afterwards ? Alen of corrupt minds, and 4eftituteof the truth, thinke thatgaine is godlineffe, why fhould not manycouetous men then enter into thekingdome of heauen i' A trauellerin his iourney may wander out of his way, notwithfanding hismeaning togoe right, ifhe will make no en- quirk for it. And no tradeor fcience is attainedvnto, by thewiI- liugnelleofhauing, but of learning of ir. Confotation to them that are not confidentof themfelues to leant on their wifdome ; but inquire for dire1ion in the booke of God, and take aduiceand counfell from his feruants. Though the world deemethan fllieCooks and voidofwit, yet the Lord efltcrneth
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