172 ;?fa1.;7.1g. ELek.z S.13; Reve1.18.16. Matth.ó.;o. I onah.4.60,6. The deceitf :rineffe ofMans heart. before, when they flood flourifhing in their pride and beauty.So that here alf7 we may tranflate thofe words of the Prophet from the outward goods, and apply them to the inward graces of the wicked: oh, low horribly and fnddenly are they confirmed ?Thorn hag; fet them,and their graces too,inflipperygronnd: As a dreame they vanifh, &c. And as they in the Prophet lament Tyrus and Sidon, with the like lamentation may wee bewaile the pittifull ruines of the unfoucid C hrifl:an. Thom baff been in Eden, the garden of God, as one of the faireft trees thereof : every pretious pone was in thy garrslent, t he Kuby,t he Topaze the Diamond, &c. But alas,alas, thefe great ones that were cloathed with purple and (like: For in one houre are all thefcri- ches come to defolation.Yefterday flourkfhing like one of the gallant Lillics , putting down Solomon in all his glory,and alas to day caft into the fiery Oven of hell. The many gourds of excellent graces fprouted up fuddenly and grew mightily,and under their fha- dow yee fate rejoycing : but alas with longs his jny: For the worm ofa deceitful) heart in one nigh, bath as fuddenly confumed them all: So that now yee are worfe then ever before; as lonah,afrer the perifhing of la's gourd,troubled riot only with the fun,but alto with the E ;flwinde.The winds of he D1vels temp- tations fha 1 he let looft,more fiercely to inrage the f cr.:hing Sunne of chine own concupfcence and corruption,free liberty (hall giv,-n to thy former - ly reflrait ed coy rupcion ; & foca(much as thou waft al waves a >ow, power of re-entrance fh41 be gran- ,.ed to their pure ípirit, with the company of fcven worfe,thatas once he hid thofe Gadaren Swine, he may
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