Prefiematiucs tokeeps vsfrom the infeéion o f finne. 619 piatls,-Cololïians, Theffalonians, and the refl mentioned in theReuelation. And to the examples cffonder tirnes,adde . thole which eueryman obferueth inhis ovine experience ; and thenconfider withall,that thecaufe which mooned the Lord to execute in his iufl difpleafure there heauie fudge- meats vpon Mankind, was nothing elfe but finite) and it will bee a forcible reafo.n to withdraw vs from it. For the Lord is immutableandvnchangeable in his courfe ofiuf}ice, andhe hateth fume now as deadly as in former ages ; neithcr willhee fpare vs.more thanothers, ifwce liue in our fumes without repentance : nay; ettainelie as ourfinnes beingag- grauated ,by manie circurnflances are more odious_ veto hint, fowill the Lord proportionablie infli&l more heauie iudgementsvpon vs thenhe bath vponothers, whole finnes haue notbeen fogreat and prefúmptuous. For if the Lord, giue vs now extraordinarie: knowledge, or at leafl the meanes thereof, and wee finite againfl thisknowledge and againfl our ovineconfciences ; he hath in rnofl abundant meafuremultiplied hismerciesvpon vs,and we hereby bee made_snore unkind and vnratefull;. if hee hath giuen vs warning by innumerable examples .of 'his heauie iudgc. ments executed vpon others in former times, and in our owndaies,yeaeuen in our ovine fight,laiethheauie punifh, ments vpon fuch as haue committed no other finnes then wee ourfelues are guildeof, and y,wee 'continue in our finnes wibthsytt repentance, hew is it poffible,but that wee could provoke Gods fierce wrath again0 vs, and draw domne violentlie vpon our felues.,with thefe. cartropes of iniquitie, Gods fearefull plagues and heauie iudgements? It is true indeede that God is long fuffering" and flow to anger butifherebywee take occafion to continue in our finites, anddoe delay our repentance,. what doe we elfe but treafäsreztp agailQfít.our felues ' rath.aq.ainfl theday of *rash, Rom2.r. andthedeclaration of the iuft iudoernent of God? It is moll certaine that God is not ,eafily prouoked towrath, and an ger : but let not this incourage .vs to continue inour finnes for ifitbe once inflamed, itis fierce and terrible,that with thebeate thereof it drieth vp the feast and fo powerfttll
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