- of RE L I G I 0 N. 37 ·· ho\V vifibly fuch have been pro1noted to the nioft honourable Service for GOD, ·and to advance the Credit of R~ligion be– fore Men, ·who on the firfl: Sight and , View, have been accounted the xnoft n1i· ·, ferable ofany. . ., VI. WH 1 L s T, on the other Hand, it tnay be ever feen, how with the greatefl: Profperity of the Wicked here, there are Punifhn1ents of another l{ind difpenfed, · and more dreadful than any l out\vard Af– fiiB:ion, fuch, as judicial Obftinaqy, and Blinclnefs of ~~1ind in oppofition to GOD, even when their own Ruin is 1nade vifi· ble to thetn herein. / -VII. Hovv oft Menare thus evidently . condetnned to be happy in this World; .by fome ftrange Meafure of temporal Succefs and Profperity, before fame great Fall and Ruin, _as the Ifiue hereof · in the ]aft Scene ofProvidence, doth ful- , \) y ~tteft. / , . VIII. T H: .A. T '_tis ~~en ,aHo, how Sin doth . ever bring its own P'unifhment \ \vith . .it, in fotne begun Degree both of Shame and Tonnent; and, as Seneca, . an Heathen, could fay, That Wickedneft was the nu?fl exquiftte Contriver of hu– nuJ_n Mtfery, fo the World likewjfe 1nay · ~ D · fee - J.
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