-, I 1·. .Alljin,us pardo~ed to the Humble. " no God ~ Couldfi thou not be conrent to live for ever in this world, fo that thou w~rc h3ppy h::re, - and fo there were no hdl ~ Couldll: thou not be content that there were no .h\aven, no God, no Iudge at the lafi~ If every unregenerate rhan would examine himfelfe, he ihould find this in himfelfe. I Now ifanywifh that fuch an one were not, tl'tat he were .fithlAtus de meJio,it is a fi:gne he hates him: · for that is the propertyof hatred, todefire the ut~ ter removall of the things hated. 5. Againe, doll: thou not lie in fome fin which thoa knowcll: is a Gnne~ No~ every man that lies ina Gnne, aknowne Gone, feareth God as a Iudge. Let himb~a thiefe, and he will feate the Iudge,and whom aman thus feareth, he hateth; fl.!!Jm metuunt ,oderuNt~he that walkes in darlcneife hates the light, and God who is the author of that light. Doll: thou therefore live in fome evill way or other) wherein thoudoll: allow thy felfe r! thou haft-no in~ereft in thefe_promifes : ondy thofe that c latmemrerett mtnepromlies, whomakpconfci. ence of all their w~ves, dare not omit ~fie leandu. ty, nor_£erform it fiightly. · -~-L-rltiy confider, ;trt thou not oneof the fooliili virgins, deferring repentance~ . not caring topro- · .videoyle in time, but thinketl: thou canfi do it time enough at death~ and, I will come inere I die,like the Jlttggardin the Pr~tv,trhs, tumbling in the bed ' of thy fin fecurely, and loath to rife, turning like : the doore on the hinges·i but ll:ill remaining up9n the fame hinges. The Lordbath faid, Deut.zg. that , hewill not be mercifull to fuch aman , but his·an- · ger lhall fmoke againfi him. But
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