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Satan{ tentations
massing
men
to
de
p ire.
427
die?
v hyaffure
thy
felfe
it
is
too
late, for
are
not thy
finnes
in number
nutnberleffe, and in
their
qualitie and nature
tnófl
hainous and
outragious?
and haft
thou not continued
in
this
thy rebellion againP
God
a
long time;
refuúng
to
come
unto hint,
though
hee.
bath often called;and
carclefly
negle6ting
all
the
tneanes
of
thy faluation,
When
thy
God
path
gratiouflie
offered
them vnto thee
?
Now
therefore
the
acceptable time and
day
offaluativn
is
pat+
neuer
againe to
be
recalled
;
and
though with
Efau
thou fcekeflrepentance
with
teares yet
(halt
thou
neuer
find
it. Moreouer
to
the con-
lidcration
of
thy
horible
rebellion, adde
the remembrance
ofGods
iufflce,
which
can
in no
wife
fiiffer
finne
toogoevn-
punifhed
;
the
terrible
curfe
of
the
law denounced
by
God
who
is
truth it
felfe,
againfl thofe who continue
not
in all
that
is
written
in
thebooke
ofthelaw
to
doe
it;the
fcarefull
torments
of
hell
prepared for (inners,
among{}
which
num-
ber
thou art one-ofthechiefe;
and therefore doe
not
flatter
they
felfe
with
hope
of
mercy, but-rather
expel
thofefeare-
full
iudgements,and
endleffe
torments
which
are
due
vaio
thee
for thy rebellious
w'ickednefhe
:
and thus
loth
Satan
labour to bring
the poore
Chriflian to
deepe
defperation,
and to
fill
his confoience.with
horror
and feare; which
ifhee
can
accomplifh,he refleth
not there, but
like
a-
cruell
coward
who
can
neuer
beat
quiet
till he
fee
the
death
ofhis
enemie;
fo
our malitious enetnie
is
neuer
fatisfied
till
he
fee
our death
and vtter def}rucion.
And
therfore when
he
bath
grienouf
lie vexed
the
Chriflian
confcience- with- fearefitll
horror,
and tormented
hit euen-
with
the flafhings
of
hell
fire,
in the nexrplace,he
will perfwade him
to
feeke fotne eafe
of
his prefent
torments by imbruing
his
hands
in-
his ovine
blood,and putting
himfelfe
to
forne
violent
death
:
which
is
nothing
elfe
but
(as
the
Prouerb
is)
to
leape
out
of
the
frying.
pan
into
the
fir,and
in
feeking
to
eafe his
terrors ofconfei
ence
to plunge
himfelfe
into
the torments
of
hell.
Again(}
which
tentations,whofoeuer
would be
f}rengthe-
ned
and enabled
to
with{}and
their-force
and violence, they
mull
not
ref}
in
themfelues, defiring in
whole,or-in part to
i
be ufiifed
by
their
legal
righteoufiieffe
;
neither mull they
meafure
4.SeIL2
That
if
wee
will vz,itb-
flan-d
¡hé
tri
mer
ientat.