/ 98: The .r confirmit~:g Worlt of infernal Spirits acting i~ a human Shape. ~ · . ~ -VI. So clear a Prelude and begin- , - ning of Hell, is in that judicialObdu· ration, and Blindnefs, whieh 1nariy are given up to, (under the greateft Difco· ' veries of Light,} that all n1ay fee their being thus bouqd over ii1 Chains, and · fhut . up in ,I)rifon, , until · Death br-ing ~ · · them forth to · the Executiot1 ·'·; and that no Relief or Application of the Means of Grace hath then any Succefs. , VII. Such a l\1ap and Shadow o.f eter– nal V:engeance, is in thefe ,terrible Acts -ofdivine J udgtnent infiiCledhere on Apo- , ftates, and Perfecutors of the Truth, and · other flagitious Perfobs, which with the . .very fidl: View might prefeP.t an awful ar1d ~nl·mediate Appearance of God in the fame, fotne ffrange and fi1pernatural Pu– niihment is oft fo vifible 'on the w·orkers / of Iniquity. . · , VIII. And, (whafever be of .natural Caufes in fuch vifible Reprefentations - here in 'the Earth; as· that fulphureous , La~e where ·once So,dom was, and thofe . burning Mo!:}ntains of ll£cla, ~t/Ja, 'and Veftrvius,) yet we ma_y truly JUdge that tlley are 'thus' fet before the World, as vifible I I f '
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