366 Thesolder e f feEluall calling to Chriff. and they are al medatrefh,anc] they run violently, and for any thing aman knowes, they gotdowne to hell : - how many profeflours have turned to beuncleane perfons,and to bedrunkards,becaufe their old tnnes were but onely f.ebbed bygood company and the word,&c. But they never had their hearts throughly broken the root that nurfedall, was Hill the fame, and therefore they breakeout notorioufly,to the difhonour ofGod, the fcandall oftheGofpell, and the confufionof their owne Joules, it Godbenot merciful!. Fourthly, as unbeleefe keepes God from the foule, and makes all meanes unprofitable, and maintainer all finne in the firength and life ofit: So lafIly,it makes the foule of a poor Cnner tobe in adefperate etfate,aid a man continuing in this condition,is paff hope,help,Szrecovery;beleeving is the laft covenant that ever God bath expt°eff ; a man maybe faved andnot doe the law,but a man cannot be faced if hedoc not beleeve : thats the laft covenant andcondition ofal!,and ifbee flick here, he is patf all recovery without a wonderfull worke from Heaven, Heb. 3. 18. There the Lord takes a folemne oath, that they that would not be. leeve, (ho.uldnever ender into has re/I s towhom did he fweare thus ? to them that beleeved not ; God never takes an oath that bee that keeps not the law, fhall not bee Caved ; or that bee thatcannot performe tokeepe all the Commandements,hall not be faved, andnever fee happinef e : rio, but he takes an oath, that they that beleevenot, (ball never feehappinefife,andwhctrGod.once fweares, the
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