®fthe Richman ändLax sAais: T g and that Sternall in heauen : alfo the threatnings ofa moll intollerable death,and that oserlaffing in the bells. Ifthen, a (port lifeofpleafures,fhort and vaine,fomouevs ; howcan we but bemoued with the lore life of thofe pleafures, that sire for esser ? And if wee be fo much troubled toheareof death(which in fomeends all paines,and beginnes all ioyes that haueno end)how can that but (hake all our bones, as with a molt violent wind,thatfpeakethofthe death that is endles ; whichalLreprobates die,& are newerdead? There fore,not to bemoued with all this, what canmoue vs :So it is fealedvpfor a fore truth,that what thewordof God ci not do,that no word efmanor Angell candoe. They that will not be healed by it,are incurable; fofaithmy text: neu ther wil theybe periwvaded,thogh one rofefröthedead again. A terrour to thole that cannot be perfwadedby theword, whether Athcifls in life,or opinion. For,fuchgo againfl all Vfe. principles and lightsboth of grace & nature. And they that fodoe,what canperfwade them but theMagiftrates ftrffe e and what anfwee mull bemade them,but filence? 2 JCings, 18,36. Howwretched then is the condition of tholepo. pith poore people thatcannot corne at theword,to beperi fwaded by it, andoftheir popifh leaders,:that thinke to per- fwadewithout it : And,what doe fuch,but 6ssry Chrafl, in 'leadofbeing buryedwith Chrifl ; alfo,by making igno rance the Motherofdeuotion(which is theflep-mother ofreli- gion) what do theybut keepe him hill in hisgraue :But, let vsofchriftian England,towhom thisdayflansofthe gofpel bath fo long appeared,and its fu eh glorie &brightnes, vn der the twoSunnoof.Elr jabeth, of infiniteworthy me. mory,&ofour dread Seueraign,K.Iames now liuing, and the happines ofour land, & thegloryof all Chriflendortr: letvs (I 1 y)theChristians ofhappy England follovv,towit, inobedience, this ftarreof theWurde , to the houle where Chrifl is borne : Math. 2.9. and auoyde or turne fr©m,by our conformitic with it, thehoufewhere thedead are, and whofe guests are in the depth ofbell, Pro.9. i 8. So Thal we bepartakers of thofe ioyes, whichLazar": hat iu Abra- T s 'teams
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