Je PROVERBS. Chap. t of their ogre fafetie, by no other argument, but onely the fight ofother mens perils : that their life and condition mlifl needes be good, becaufc the courfeand cafeoffomany lcaud perCons appcareth fobad: and fo the very foundation oftheir confidence, is nothingellebut afandiccomparifoa. z. Terror for irnpions profane perfons, whichbleife themfeht:s, when Goa curfeth them;which arrogate thepromises ofl.ife,when he dcnouoceth the threaresofdeath : whichhauea rootsofbitternet in them andlay,peaceJhallbe toms, aaltho.szh Iwalkaccordingto the fitebbornner ofmine ownehart.1ftheyperfifling in this their flub. bornnes, SL perpetuall peace, Gods,feruants walking faithfully before him, (hall findeeternall miferie ;forhe is as iuil to exe- cute his thre4tnings, as kinde and gracious to pertorme his promifes. N )wit is impoiliolc for Gods children to perifh, as it is for his owns nature and being to faile, and therefore be- hold the darrna ble flare ofthefe prefumptuousmifcreants. If theywilbe blafphemers,iftheywilbe fcoffers at religiousexer Cues;.ifthey profane the holy fabbath, which theLord hath inflituted to be Tan i fied : iftheywill defpife theauthoritieof their gouernours : ilthey will beproud, andhigh minded : if they wilbe vnmercifull and crush ; fthey wilbe vnchafl and filthvp or itemperatedrunkards, or couetous earth-wormes, or fäifc fingered, or falfe tongued, or a11oWe themfelues inany kiade of vicious behaulour, let them proceed in their leaud- nes, and Godwill proceed in his righteoufnes : their fecuritic will bring them no fafetie., the more they contemns his words by finning again{} them, the more hewill glorifie his words, bymanifetling the iu{lice, andveritie ofthem. Andthis may alto ferue toadmonish all tobeware, how they, ncgleeting the commandements fo flriftly to be obferued, in heed thereof, prefcribe to themfelues a worfbip which the braine of man hath inuented, and thewill ofman imbraced, without warrant of;and therefore contraricto theword and will oftheAlmigh- _tie. As thefe are not tobe numbred among theAthci fls, be- eaufe they be not fo impudently impious as theybe, fo nei- therarethey to be reckoned among trueworfhippers, becaufe they want that humilitie, and vprightnes which they haue. For
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