Efa.11.6.7. prou.I4, z7z 44 ,, t .e n s o wniuff anger, rauenous and cruell as theWoolfe, and Leopard,they£hall bemade as milde and innocent as the Lambe andKid : And though they bee as fierceand furious as the Lion or Beare, they £hall become as tame and gentle as the Cowe or Calfe,according to the prophecie, Efa.i r. 6.7. The FYoolfe fhallliewith the Lambe,and the Leopardfhall lie with the Kid; and the Calfe, andtheLion,and the fat beats together, and a littlechildfhall leade them , andthe Beare11uá'feedewith the Coupe, andtheiryoungonesfhalllie together: not that regene- ration doth take away nature and theaffe&ions,but becaufe it dothpartly fubdue their violence and furie,and partly fan&ifieth and reformeth them ; fo that whereas they were hurtful' and pernicious, now they aregoodand profitable to thefelucs and others , the qualitie and the obie ±ofthem beingaltered. Their louewhich was immoderately fet on the world and thepleafures ofthe flefh, is now fixed vpon God,their neighbour and fpirituall things.Their ambitious hopewhich expe&ed nothing bathonors and riches, now longeth after the prefence ofGod,and fulneffe ofioy in the heauenlyIerufalem.Their timorousfeare wherby theywere refirained from doing good, and conifrained to doe that which was euill , becaufe they wouldnot difpleafe men; is now a notablebridle to curbe in their vnlawfull defires,and a fharpe fpurre to pricke thé forwardin the courfe ofgod_ lineffe , becaufe they would not offendGod : and whereas before it was a corrupt fountaine from which nothingdid fpring but polluted fireames offinite, whole defcent is into the deepe gulfe of eternal' perdition; now it is become the welfjring oflife, tomake vs fisloidthefnaresofdeath, as it is, Prou. 14.27. So likewife rafh and vnbridledanger,which before regeneration caufed men torage againfi the perfon of their neighbour, dothnow oppofe it felfeagainflfnne and vniufiice only, whereby God is difhonored and the Churchand common-wealth damnified. Donot therfore hereafterexcufe thy furious & rafh anger by alleaging thynature;for thou mightefi aswel fay,Icánot abfiaine from it, becaufe Iamcarnali and vnregenerate , as becaufe I ambailieby nature: for thofe who haue laida(de the
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