Hooker - BT780 H7 1637

Thesouks ef Eluall calling toChriff. fltfh, and walk after it, you Pall reape everlaf$ing perdition: and againe, No adulterer nor drunkard Pall enter into the kngdome of heaven; theyheare thefe, and confider ofthem, and make a fmall materofit,and will not beleeve it; and therefore they tremble not at it, andare not affected with that turfed condition, in which they are; Dent. 2 9. 18, t 9. when the Lord haddenounced all the judgements that could be expreffed, all the mer- cies thatcould bee revealed ; in the endhe faith, Takeheed left there bein anyofyou, any root cfbitter- neff_e; fo then, when yee heare the words ofthis curfe, yee bleffeyourfelves in this eftate,andfay,lfbalfhave peace,tbough !mat inmine ownewayes ; asifhe had faid, ifany man come to this, that heecan beare all the flafhes that come fromhell, and fee hell gaping for him,andhere the thunderingofGods judgements, and beleeves nothing, but bleffeth himtelfe, and faith, the Prophets and Miniffers muff fay fometbing, and they muff have leave to fpeake, but yet I (hall beeble ffcd forall this, this wipes ofall the authority of the truth ofCod : Tooke as it is in nature, that phyfìck which the ftomack isnot able to retaine ( though itbee ne- ver fogood) it will never purge ; and the meat thoughneverfo comfortable, yet if the ftomack cannot take it downe and digefi it, it will never nourifh aman : fo be the word neverfo phyficall and cordiali, yet if a man have an unbeleeving heart, that he will not take downe the truth, it is marvellous certaine, that that word cannot pro- fit an unbeleevingheart; and thats the caufe of z z 2 that

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