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f ítilotiues toperfwadeadmen to lesue vainc"'wearing. 33 let his judgements denounced again(} prophase (wearers, jade- &batter them in perces. For in this hfc theLord bath gain°v threatned againhI wicked (wearers a whole volume of his jYem thy (in curCes)Zach.5.3. Which are faid to be regilired in a book,to ofvaa,re [hew vntovs , that feeing they arckept vpon record,thcy fwcanng. 'hall Cutely be remembred; in a large volume of twenty cu- Za`i's'3 bits long,and tense cubits broad , to note the multitude of Gods plagues which (hall be infliLed vpon thefwearer; & in a flyingbookc,to [hew the fwiftneffc ofGods vengeance againG this finne, and the quick difpatch he will make indeg !}toying ofthern,though they be fcattered far and wide vp- on the face ofthe earth.So he thrcatneth,Deut.28.58. that thofe who will not feare this glorious and fearefull name, Dcut.t8 The Lordour God,ilial be punifhed withwonderful plagues, both in themCelues and in their pol}crity,great in quantity, grieuous and fore in quality ,and in refpec`f of time,oflong continuance.To the fame purpofe theTonne ofSyrach faith, that a man which viedmuch (wearing /hall befilled withwic- kedneffe,and theplague(hallnestergoefromhis honrfe,Ecclefi. Ecclef.z3, ti 23.1 t. but well were it with blafphemers , if they had their wholeportion ofpunifament in this life,and that they might die like beafis without any future renfe of weale or woe, but they fhall finde it farte otherwifc for they who in their ordinary communication , in (lead of yea yea,nay nay,vfe vaine [wearing and bloodyorbes, [hall fall) as the Apo(lle Iam,S,Iz tellcth vs) into cternall condemnation, and as they haue blafphemed God in earth , Co they (hall continue their wic- ked blafphemies in hell torments with the damned ['piths; as they haue d i(honoured God , byabu(ngandprophanìng his holy name in their accurfed othes, fo theLordwill glo- rifie it againe in their fearful! and eternal! punifhments. And there are the reafons which may moouevs to hate Seïr 1 r. andauoidcthis finde in our (clues; the which may bee .a1Ço Wemuftrrot etfec` uall to tnakeall men carefulI in reforming this vice in onelyreforme thufe that belong vnto them , and are under their gouern- ourfelues ,but ment, efpecially Magiarates in the common-wealth , and thofewho are ,houfholders in thefamily . And the rather, let all in autho- acme"en .g rity be petfwade.dhereunto; firf},becaufc where one is tain- F ted

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