the u.Chap.to·the Hebr. vpon thcm,ddlroied them ~ll,a.nd cond~mn~d A thy fcirc,::md h:tfi'no mJ111:0 bc:uc thee ·comp~;.;. in hell as many of them as died in impcnltcnclC IJH thinkc not th:n :tll AdarmpoHcritic, :.lltht: & vnbclcde. And rhu_s th:u .,.,·ickcd .,,·orld wls .children of holy }fenor:h, and A1"trbHflt!em iuc: condemned, accordlng as Nov.h in his Miniflcal! dccciucd J .~l.!·r thy IC1fc ~dm1c? \·\·oul d.~\0'! ric had foretold rhqn, thefc& fi1ch like obicdion,~, ~uuc d,rcout<:lgo~i I Here wC may J~arnc: any man? Yet behold the wrccof.f.rith, No>1lt 1 Fir(l, ,...,h:tt the -.,vorld of this ~gc is to lookc had Gods word for ir,and ~~hcrd~Jrc bclcc!l:llh ! for, vnlcffc there be rcpcncancc. For,w fpcal<c againHall ~he ~vodd, a_nd ,is (!Ommc.ndcd to:'~a 1 . bur of our [clues in this Nation; H:l.Ue nor we ages for d11s £nth. le IS wercfc.Hc.. LHH Xf~)~,t h:td the G'ofpcl 30. yc:1res ~nd rhore? anti with Houri01 ofthePapills,toprcffc vs fo11n1ch ~fb I peace, and much profpcritic? Hauc not "~c had their mu!timdu, :md vnit:erf:ditie, and cdr,.fo;;t, 1 a 11 oodly time giucnvs to repent? VVh:J.t JS our and vaitie, o,ndjitccejfiM, and conti:manchh:Sr / d~tic but with rcucrcnc.e to fee and acknowall this is worch nothing, as long .:.s thc9 fi:r_{i lcdo:thisgoodncfrcofGod, to take bold of proouCnor, that chat dodrine or opin~Gi\ this~ncrcifull oppornmitic, this time ofgr:~.cc, ~'·hid1 thc(e multitudes hold, ha~h his· g;otmd and this day of falvation? lf we doe not, and B from Gods t.\·ord, till thcn.,:lll the other ?s vanil.. make no acccoumof the Gofpcl, what can we tic. For it is better ...vith N.oah:,.to hau,c Qoi.ts ! Jooke for, but to be condemncd,as that world plainc word of his fide, then to bckcilc bth<'l.:_ I ,:o.,·as? Looke at the n1tatics and opponunitics, ~tifC with allrbe1Porld; :.,.,·hich ·w:rs here dc::c~i- ~ v.•hich thcfe daies affoord ; & they be :tsgoldcn ucd apd cor.dcmncd, V\'h:::n N'oah done bde·e" daya, as cuer were fincc Chrijl, nr as cuer can ucd Gods '"'ot·d,and \\'~sfoued, ., :. i· . 1 be expeCted, till his comming a.g~ioc. But And rhus V•!C fc~ wh? '"'Cr~.condcmncd :lr:llt 1 loOkc Olt theprofrmcucf{c, and carnalme, and fc::. wodd, To end tlus pomr,o·nc~pte.fti~'J 111Gy trbt cmitie of this :1ge (cucnouer all Cbrrftendomc) vnprofitably be here mooucd:.· •: · :.~ .. i and this is the Ironage, thdC be the cuill daics; Whether "''as al the \H.>rld,th.at is a/l-tliCWe; 1 and fo euill that nothing can be expcC1cd,but a in that,tfor!dcondcmncdorno? The V·:ords fi:cinC t·iuer of brimHoncJ and a flood offire to purge to imply that all but No2h \\'l?rc:an~ yct~tlJ.flay it. ! · fecmc ~range, that of fo many .MiliionS none The dayes bf the commi".~ ofthe fonnc of fi10uld repent bur he:and ifrhcy repcmcd,>vhy Man (whil'h I take to be t·hcfc daycs) (I_Ja/!6ce \\'Cre they not faucd? 1an['.vcr, The "'~odd of fjk;(faith Chri!l, Mar~h.14. 3?) vnto rhcda;e.t C that wicked age was condc:m~<.-d t!J\·6· waits." of No.1h: And furely 111 fccurme 3ndprofaneFirfi, with a corporall dcflrut1:ion , and 10 neffc, they arc like; :md thc:.r~fore in all reafon they were all condcmn::-d n~ithout C:<;ccptiorl. theymufl: be like in.punHbment. Vv·ce mu!l: No high houfcs, no hils, no deuifcs of ,;1an thercforc·takc: warning~y them, and fl1akc off could fauct!Jern. For; the w.tterf ~¥Jft 1 5· cUt his fccuritic which pofl'dfeth all mens beans, hits abot!c tbc top.r of rh~ bin!uj} mot!hlf!incJ vni. and waitc for the Lord iowatchingaJldprayer, derbcaHcn,Gen. 7· zo. And.fo though till rh~n I and think• cuery day may be the /aft da7ofthis diucrfcof them liued bJ:flyin'g to the hi'tes:yct world; atlca!l, the lafi day of our Jiues!and Jet that bccmg rhc1r !all rdug~, ·and bccing th~s . 1 vs prepare for it, and liuc in the expccbtion of r•ken from them, thcaal/f!-fb.pcrifht·drlwmouc 1 it. Othcrwifc, ifo'l.t.r.finfulncfTc gro~;vc on a litucdvpo11 the earth: te11d c1:cr)' 1rHm, a"d eP.dj I tic fLUdlcr; nothing.(anwe lbokc for,but to be thing tha.t d~eJY.ethc hre.ulr of life.- Ftn fo (aith I condemned in anvniucrfall iudgcn~nt~ as that the Stone, Gen. 7·:! I .2 ~.And it is Tnf{J(ta'i'iw tO; worlQwas. Let vs therefore bctake our fCJucs imagine) that :my o~thcnrcotil.1lbe f~t'ic'd vpon I to a more fcrious fcruingofGod:rhat theLord that Ark! :for,firft,Jt \\'as fo nud<! wuh aridot, whenhe commcth,rUa.y find vs fo doing. in the top (as is moft probabl~t-hougl\r)lh~t I Scconclly, in that the·whole world ~hatrhen t1o marl could !hndvpon it,mtich lcilC m~t.:e·ft:. was, was thus dd'lroyed :l.nd condemned, and D ny !by, in that violent tolling bytcmpdlsoVi~ I (as we heard afore) oncly f\lo"ah and hU houf- .gainc ,,ifthey could, yet could rh'Cy·n·or•halle ! h~ld fou.tei:L ;· we: lcarn,c, that it is not good, nor t, ,liucd iO long foi want offoodc:; the \.Yatcrs he-. 1f'afc to followc the multit-ude. Noah waS here n ing ( almollj ayeare vpon rlre.c:taf;th. ·A1'td.-tht1-s . man alonc,hc held and belecucd againfi aH the -it is moll cenainc, they alht~ithtiot cXcCptior1, ! J~orld, and yet his iudgcment .and his belccfc w.ere dctlroycd '¥Vith bocliiy.rlcfiruClion.: ) \ wastrue, and all the worlds falft: and (acco.r... · But feco1~dly, they vvcrc coJidcnmcd· l><1~ff ding~y) heJ.~tud, when tiJcywereall condemned. .Ctcrnall ddhuftion in ·heif:and thercfotc S:P(:.. ·It is meruaile therefore the Church ofRome ter, r. ~. 18. faith, Theirfpirirs '!re no;v in pri[oft,. /houldforr\uch fiand vpon mtm~ers .1nlimulri~ lvbr/werc difuhedicnt in rhc(Lucsof Noah.Now tudcs ., for the gr:tcing of their religion: For, all the qucHion·is, "' hcthir were tht'y a.JJ ·to1 1-.: 1t cucr was, and cue1 wlll be a. \~cake ~rgndenmeel, 011i1o? I an(w~r; For on!!,ht thnr we mcnt.If multitudes might cucr haue beene ::llccrt:tinly knovv out ofrhc Scripturt',ihcy "''Uc / ~cadgccl; then \'ntoNMh cfpccJ:tlly, to whom :tll·condcmncd. Yet in the iudgcmcnr ofch;T.-. I ' 1t m1ght haue bccnc fa1J, \ Vho rtrt thou that dtic!wC arc not fb to rbinl\~!:md the r;:tdtt.T,bc .. p1 ctcnddl to be ,,,fcr•thcn all men' & to know dtik there :trc manv prob:!hlc c5icClurc:> tha't \ j morr. th~ al_thc ~~ori&Thou that hall afaith by IOmc_ofthem rcpC~~d. For howfocu_:,~;ny of F f ~ them ---..---------------- - . .
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