,.. ' . ' .~ of RE L IG 10 N. . 103 whe.n foine great Event of the Scripture . is to ·be revealed· to the World, and near / to its ,ft}ll- Height, and Periodof ·Accotnp1iihment, (as we have fafe Ground for " / Affurance of this Day~) Ill. Nor bath this fad and difn1al Hour on the Church, .been tnore obvious than the pr-0voking Caufe . hereof; in w hieh ·the holy Righteoufn~fs of God, .', ; rhay 'be no lefs clear, ,\than the ,Cloud , . now is dark ; when there has been fuch a vifible ta11ing off from. that Love, Tendernefs~ 'and Power of Religion, that did_fortnerly attend its ProfeHion; for . thefe tnany Years paft,. we tnight have feen that fame . fore and remarkable . Judgment was con1ing, and that if ,we had not been in fuch a Mariner undone, , we were, under fome f~dder Stroke of fpiritual Judgn1ent, r.~fldy _ to be utterly undone. ·· · . . . . , 1 1"\_'. Yea, jt ha~~ beentoo vifible, that '· fuch Evils followed the Refonned Chur- . /. ches, as in _no Time it was ever known, ._·." . that the holy God did pafs by, without fotne fignal Evidence of his Wrath a- · gainfi t~e fame before the World. · . . .y. We know, that carnal Cenfidence / · bath a Curferever waitivg upon it )n the 1 · · S9rip~ ·
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