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THE EPISTLE
DEDICATORIE.
like
old Serpents,
alluring
and
deceiuing with
tread
cherous policies.
Neither
doe they
reft
in the time
ofour
reft,but
waking
and
fleeping
they
fet
vpon
w,
one
while inticing
vs
to
fwallow
the
poyfon
of
finne, with the fugred
baites
of
worldly
vanities,
and
another
while
driving
vs
into
their
fnares
of
perd ition,
with
the
fharpe pricking
goads
ofmife-
rie
and
affli6lion.
Before
vs
they
fet
carnal!.
plea
-
fures,deceiuing
riches,
and
vaine
honors,
to
allure
vs
to
come
into the
broad
way that leadeth to
deftruai-
on
:
and behind
vs
they hold the
three- ftringed
whip
of
loffe,
flame,
and
punîlhment,
to
keepe
vs
from
going
backe,
and to
haften
vs
with
winged
fpeedeto
runne
forward in
this
liellifh
iourney.
Neither
doe
they
greatly
care
what
path
we chufe
in this
common
way
of
perdition
;
whether
the
fpatious
way
of
fecu-
ritìe
and
prefumption,
or
the
ftrait
path
of
horror
and
defperation;
whether
the toyling
way
ofvnfati-
able
couetoufnelk; or
the loft
faire
way
of bewitch-
ing
pleaiures;
whether
the open
way
of
worldlineffe
and
atheifine,
or
through
the hidden
thickets
of
hy-
pocrifie
and
di_fïitnulation
é:
in`
a
word,
they regard
not
in
what way
we walke,
fo
we
goe
forward in
the
wales
of
finne
;
for
though
they
feeme diuers
and
contrarie
one to another,
yet
they haue
all
the
fame
end,
meeting
together
in
hell
and deftruótián.
And
howfoeuer they cannot
with
all
their
Malice,
power,
and
policies,
attaine
vnto their
defires, by
bringing
Gods
eledt
and
faithful!
ones
to
perdition and
end
-
lefle
miferie
;
becaufe
God
their heauenly
father
who
hath
taken
vpon him
their protection,
fruflra-
teth
all
their
fubrill
policies
with
his all
-
feting
wife
-
dome, and withftandeth
all
their
might
with
his al-
mightie