The soule.r eEfpallcaliing toChrift. prophefiedof thefe times, 2Tim.;. r,; 3, 4, 5. 'erfes, Inthe !aft dayes ¡hall comeperilouro times, for men fhial bee lovers ofthensfelves, coveteme, boa,fters, &c. difabedient toparent,-, unthankefull, unholy, ha- ving a !hew ofgßdlineffes but denying thepower ofit; this isour times right, having toyes, and trifles, deny the power of godlineffe,it ismade good in our cares, and in our eyes thisday; and fo it was in all theea th,asLuke 8. 15. therewere foure fortsofhearers, leaving out the ffragglers, that would never come to the hearing of the word, for thefe were confiant hearers, andyet but one fort good,and yet therewere three times fomany moreofall thefe three forts, as there wereofthe good hearers g and therefore there is fcarceone . toten inthat proportion, nay in this laft age of the world, when men [hall bee full ofthe know. ledge ofGod, Ezech. 47.4. andwhen the waters of theSan taary (hall runfrom theamides to the chin, and men (hall abound in knowledge, and whenGod (ball bring home the people of the jewes.aed Gentilesboth together ; yet even then marke wh: t our Saviour fàith, Luke 18 8.when the sonn ofman cosrneth, (hall he findefaith en the earth? fj eaking of the power ofprayer, and the vertueofit, when it comes from faith, hee. faith, ¡hall hee finde faith on the earth ? a man would thinke, that then there fiaould have beene many faithful! people, and many praying hearts, but W there had beeneany, Chrift wouldhave found it; but the text faith, [hall Chrift finde faithon the earthwhen he comes ; foils/auk 24, 58. as is was K kk 2 in 439
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