TheSoule:gauall calling to Chriff. laid downe upon the naile, yet imbelcefe will not Coffer the foule to ftretchout a little finger to it ; and faith love and joy, I charge you, delight net inthat mercy, anddefre; Tooke not out after it? nay, if the wrathof God bee revealed from Heaven againft the foule, yet it ffops the foule that thewrath of God moves it not, becaufe un- beleefe rules;and faith feare, tremble not at Gods judgements ç and forrow, mourne not you for finne ; come all this wayand farrow for the loffe ofprofits and pleafures, and becaufe my will is croffed, but I will not haveyou fomuch as looke afterGod,This is theended nature ofunbeleefe, that there is nothingof God, of grace and happi neflè, cancone neere the foule, unleffc theiron gate of infidelitybee plucks off' the hinges, and thebars bebroken afunder : this is that which the holy Prophet fpeakesof ¡fay7. 9. when theLord wouldexpreffe the power of himfelfe in an ex- traordinary manner, he bids Ahaz thathe fhould looke for a miracle; and yet he faith, Ifyoube- lavenot,you cannot be eßabliJhed : fo thatthough God expreffed never filchmiraculous power of rrrrcv and goodneffe, yet fo long as the heart i9' lockt up in unbeleefe, there is nomercy cancome at him ; nay, which is worfe ifworfe can be, un- beleefenot onely fhuts thedoore againfiChriff and will nor receive him when bee intreats for entrance, but it fets open the doore ro all bate lutfs, to fánne and Satan, than which there can beQ greater irviigniry offered to the God of heavaí an4ear ,: a#ier. a. I a. i 3. ®kye beaaiant be 355.
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