Comfortable Preferuatiaet again deseruticn. 469 1&ifements vpon them, yet they were no whit reformed but -waxed worfe and worfe, and that this was not the cafe of Some fewbut ofalthe Whole ofthe people,for thewhole headwasfck and thewhole heart was heauie, and thatfrom the . foie of the foete to thecrowneofthe head there wasEothingPond therein, but wounds,andfreellings,and(oresfull ofcorruption,the .cure whereof theyvtterlie negle6ted. In the io. verse hee ratcheth the finnes ofboth prince and people, with thofe crying fumes and outragious wickedneffe of Sodome and Gomorah, whichbrought downe fromheauen fire andbrim- ftone to confume them, Inthe,i r. 12. Y 3, and iq.. verfes,he complaineth of their Ethic hypocrifie in Gods outward worship ioyned with the vtter negleet oftruegodlinefhe and his fpirituallferuice, whichcaufed the Lord to detefi al their facrifices, fabbathes, and new moones. So that there could not bee imagined greater wickedneffe in any people, re- fpeáingthofenotablemeanes which the Lord continually granted unto them aboueall other nations for their owne conuerfion; and therefore who would not haue thought their fiate tobemoli defperate, who would nothaue looked dailie that the Lord should haue confumed themwith fire andbrimflone, or haue caufed the earth to haue swallowed them vpaliue, asit didCorah andhis aifociats ? but behold the infinite mercies of our gratious God, euen when they wallowedin this filthy finckeofall impietie,the Lordcalleth them to repentance,andwhen as they had forfaken him, and fled fromhim, defiringnothing leflè then to make ormed- (lle with him, the Lord callethvnto them, and hee in whole power it was euerieminute vtterlie to defiroy them, fit fl of all defireth a parlie;heewhomight well abhorre to vouch- fife them his prefence, earnefilie defireth conference with them,fayingverf. i8. Come now and let vs reafon together, faith the Lord; though your finnes were as critnfon, they (hall bee madeas white as fnow; though they were red like fcarlet, they fhall beas wooll. t4 In like manner in the timeofour Sauiour Chrifi thefame pea,6, Imesmofi wickedlie rebelled againfl the Lord ; for when Theexample the Lord inhis rich mercy fent the promifed Afeffi , to de- of tbeljra.c Ll h liu.et
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