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Prefiematiucs
to
keeps
vs
from
the
infeéion
o
f
finne.
619
piatls,-Cololïians, Theffalonians, and
the
refl
mentioned
in
theReuelation. And to the
examples
cf
fonder
tirnes,adde
.
thole which eueryman obferueth
in
his
ovine
experience ;
and then
confider
withall,that
the
caufe
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
immutable
and
vnchangeable
in his courfe
ofiuf
}ice,
and
he
hateth
fume
now
as
deadly
as
in
former ages
;
neithcr
willhee
fpare vs.more
than
others,
ifwce
liue
in
our fumes
without
repentance
:
nay;
ettainelie
as
our
finn
es
being
ag-
grauated
,by
manie
circurnflances
are
more
odious_
veto
hint,
fo
will the Lord proportionablie
infli&l
more heauie
iudgementsvpon
vs
then
he
bath
vpon
others, whole
finnes
haue
not
been
fo
great and
prefúmptuous. For
if
the Lord,
giue
vs
now
extraordinarie: knowledge, or at
leafl
the
meanes
thereof, and
wee
finite
againfl this
knowledge and
againfl
our
ovine
confciences
;
he
hath
in rnofl
abundant
meafuremultiplied his
mercies
vpon vs,and
we hereby
bee
made
_snore
unkind and
vn
ratefull;. if
hee
hath giuen
vs
warning
by
innumerable
examples .of
'his
heauie
iudgc.
ments
executed
vpon
others
in
former times,
and
in
our
own
daies,yea
euen
in
our ovine
fight,laieth
heauie
punifh,
ments vpon
fuch as
haue
committed
no
other
finnes
then
wee
our
felues are
guild
e
of,
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 butif
hereby
wee take
occafion
to continue in
our
finites,
and
doe
delay
our repentance,.
what
doe we
elfe
but
treafäsreztp
agailQfít.our
felues
'
rath.aq.ainfl
the
day
of *rash,
Rom
2.r.
andthe
declaration
of
the
iuft
iudoernent
of
God?
It
is
moll
certaine
that God
is
not
,eafily
prouoked
to
wrath, and an
ger
:
but let not this
incourage
.vs
to continue
in
our
finnes
for
ifit
be
once inflamed,
it
is
fierce
and
terrible,that with
the
beate
thereof
it
drieth
vp
the feast
and
fo
powerfttll