'•f 186 Of tur.ningfrom oure'llill JP ayes. we fhall be (ure to find him a refuge ; for go whi– ther thouwile, He isthere. P{11l. I.J9. Whether im, the fisrtherm'.ft parts of th'tMtth, or the he11rtro[ the Sea, ,thouar1 there, fayes D~tviJ, ·and as nothing is fo terrible to the wkked as that ; goe whither they can, God i? there ; fo nothing ismore comfor– table to the Godly• . Now wearecom1eto the !all condition, which the Lord requires, beforehe will heareprayers and forgive their finnes, orheale theland ofhispeople; and th~t is, If my people turne from theirevi8 tvM7es. Whence youmayobferve this Doctrine. . Dofi.S. · That except 4 mAn. doe fttrne {rPm his eviUVNJes; hee cAn .h~ve n1 interefl ,.., the pro~lifuif the. Go}feU. - Now this poynr, as the refi, hath a'dqubleoffice. The one ·is to fhut out thofe, tGwhom thre premi– fes belongnot ; if yotl t11rne notfrtJm yoHr evil/"'"J-es, yo_urpra.yer~ -fhall not ,behear-d: Another tGopena · ; doore ofcomfort eo them that-doe.i,t, theirprayers ! ·lhail be heard. _ 1 But firfi for matter of terror to thofe without; ' andherein our method lhall be, .firfi ro know ~~rhat it i's·,., turne from ~Ur t'llill wAyes; f0r when theLord .lhall hahgall his promifes uponthefe conditions, we have reafon toexauiine them narrowly. Wirer– fore for the conceiving ofrhis, we mufl: know, that ,everyman :is borne ~ackward into thewovld~ wirh his hAcke iurn11/ flpon G1d, 111uJbiJfAct towardfinn-e ' · -and helJ, .and fo continues, ·- till;he hearefame(call from Go~ to the contrary, faying, That is not the
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