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Comfortable
Preferuatiaet
again
des
eruticn.
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 few
but
ofalthe
Whole
of
the people,for
the
whole
head
was
fck
and
the
whole
heart
was
heauie,
and
that
from
the
.
foie
of
the foete
to
thecrowne
of
the head there
was
E
othing
Pond
therein,
but
wounds,and
freellings,and(ores
full
ofcorruption,the
.cure
whereof
they
vtterlie
negle6ted.
In
the
io.
verse
hee
ratcheth
the
finnes
ofboth
prince and people,
with
thofe
crying
fumes and
outragious wickedneffe
of
Sodome
and
Gomorah,
which
brought
downe
from
heauen
fire
and
brim
-
ftone
to
confume
them,
In
the,i
r.
12.
Y
3,
and
iq.. verfes,he
complaineth
of
their
Ethic
hypocrifie in
Gods outward
worship ioyned with the vtter negleet
oftrue
godlinefhe
and
his fpirituallferuice, which
caufed
the Lord
to
detefi
al
their
facrifices,
fabbathes, and new moones.
So
that
there
could
not
bee imagined greater
wickedneffe in any
people,
re-
fpeáingthofe
notable
meanes
which
the
Lord continually
granted unto
them aboue
all
other
nations for
their
owne
conuerfion;
and therefore
who
would
not
haue
thought
their
fiate
to
be
moli
defperate,
who would
not
haue looked
dailie
that
the Lord
should haue confumed
them
with
fire
and
brimflone, or
haue caufed
the earth to haue swallowed
them
vp
aliue,
as
it
did
Corah
and
his aifociats
?
but
behold
the
infinite mercies
of
our gratious
God,
euen
when they
wallowed
in this
filthy fincke
ofall
impietie,the
Lord
calleth
them
to
repentance,and
when
as
they had forfaken him, and
fled from
him,
defiring
nothing
leflè
then to make
ormed-
(lle
with him, the Lord
calleth
vnto them,
and
hee in
whole
power
it
was
euerie
minute vtterlie
to
defiroy
them,
fit
fl
of
all defireth
a
parlie;hee
who
might
well
abhorre
to
vouch-
fife them
his prefence, earnefilie
defireth conference
with
them,faying
verf.
i
8.
Come now
and
let
vs
reafon
together,
faith the
Lord;
though
your
finnes
were
as
critnfon,
they
(hall
bee made
as
white
as
fnow; though
they were red
like
fcarlet, they
fhall
be
as
wooll.
t4
In
like manner
in
the time
of
our Sauiour Chrifi the
fame
pea,6,
Imes
mofi wickedlie rebelled againfl the
Lord
;
for
when
The
example
the Lord
inhis
rich mercy
fent the promifed
Afeffi
,
to de-
of tbeljra.c
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liu.et