426 Chap. 5. e4Commentarie apex there is no daurger. Thus make they a eouenan* with hell and death. Ira. 28. But they deceiuethcmfelues: for God isvn changeable, and all his threats (hall be accomplifhed. And no adulterer, no fornicatour,novncleane perfon (hall enter into thekingdomeofGod, whatfocuer men fuppofe,or dreamt. í Secondly,by the confideration ofthis threat, weare admo- nifhed to flee aduiterie, fornication, wantonnes, &c. They fay, there are but tricks of youth. Bchke then it is but a tricke,to loofe thekingdoms ofheauen.Salotnon faith,Riefèd id the than float feareth, or caafeth himfelfe tofeare. Prou. 2 8. r4. now that to fhall be done , when we terrific our fclucs from theft offences by letting Gods iudgements before vs. Lallly, fome man may fay, what fhall they doe that are o- uertaken with there finnes, if the doers thereof cannot enter into the kingdó ofgod?dnf..Their cafe is dangerous:& there is 15 but one way to helps them in the world : and that is to cede fromaduiterie, fornication ,vncicannes,wantonnes, and todoe the contrarie. Pfa1.34.14. And this will doe the deeds : for the promifeofGod is, he that confefeth hitfnmr, andforfakrth thï, (hall haue mercie. Prou. 2 8. t 4. And this promife ofGod is not so contrarie to his threat. For fo long as men are doers of thcfe finnes, or ofany one of them, they are out of Godskingdom: and when they ccafe tobe doers of them, and contrariwifc ex- ercife thetnlelues in the workes of chaflìtic , pot-ref-flog their vcfldils,that is , their bodtes,in fan(tification and honour, the, 25 cafe is altered , and they mull no more be reputed doers of there finnes. For God accepts men not as they hauebits, but as they arc. In that there roue finnes , adarlterie,fornication, &c. are MI. nife,? worker ofthe flesh, we are taught three things. The firfl is, 30 That we mull flockevp the rootsoftheft finnes, that is,morti- fie the paUiion ofconcupifccnce,Col.3. S. t .Theft 4.5. which is nothingels but an inordinate inclination to thefe vices. And it is mot tified in vs , ifwe learne to feareGod in his word, and in the commandement that forbiddes aduiterie. For the feare 35 ofGod clrnfeth both heart and hfe. Iofcph tempted byhis mi- finis to follie, by this meanes eft hewed the offence,frying,/hall Idoe this, and lanea in f God? Further,it mull be rcmers)brcd, that without holines,no man can fee God, or haue fellowship with him Hebr. t 2. 4, Andwhile the lull. ofconcupifccnce bcares
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