Part II. The Living Temple. 245 do them. Afioni thing thing ! That he IhouldCurfe me, who Made me! That my Being, and a Curfe upon me, fhould proceed from the Word, and Breath, of the fame Sacred Mouth ! Of how ter- rible Import is his Curfe! To be made an Anathema, feparate and cut off from Cod, and from all the dutiful and loy- al part of his Creation ! Driven forth from his delightful Prefence ! In the fame Breath, it is faid to the loathed Wretch, depart -- accurfd ! To be re- duc'd to the Condition of a Vagabond on the Earth, not knowing whither to go ! Naked of Divine Protection from any violent hand : Yea, markt out for the Putt of the tharpeft Arrows ofhis own Indignation ! How Voluminous and Exclufive is his Curfe! Reaching to all one's Concernments in both Worlds, temporal and eternal, of out- wardand inward Man. To be curfed inone's Basket and Store, in the City, and Field, in going out, and coming in. Efpecially to have all God's Curfes and Plagues, meeting and centring in one's very Heart, to be therefmittenwith Blindnefs, Madnef , and Aflonifhrsent ! How Efficacious is this Curfe ! Not a faint, impotent, wifhing ill to a Man ! h. 3 nut
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