All calamity is from finne. . . { 28; ) ' Learne hence to fee finne in its owne colours ;I r{e 2. finn.e is afecret and invi~ble evill, and in ic felfeas · abfi:radly confidered, 1s hard eo be feene of the beft: therefore look~ upon it as it is cloathed w_irh calamities; andwh~n you view it under t t' C cloa.. -· rhing,you will have another op:nionof it than you had before. If you !hould know a man, who, wherefo~ver hee comes , dorh norh ~ ng but m i f~ chiefe, poyfons one, fiabbs ano~her, &c. and leaves every where fo ;ne prints of his villany ; how hatefull and terrible would he be unto your: it is ftnpe that playes all thefe. reaks among us; if linne come upon a man clo a thed~and armed .with Gods wrath, as it often dorh at d~ath, then it is ter rible. Whydoe we nor looke upo.n it thus.at o– thervimes, but becaufewe do not behold i : in the fearefull effeds of ir, as then in the wrath due to it we doe~ Sinneisrhe fame at all timeselfc, but our fancy is not alwayes the fame, as rhe bocy is·alwayes the fame, though the lhadow bee greater or leifer: that which we nowcount-a fmaU iinne, as fwearing, and petty oaths, will one d~1 y be terrible; fuch a finne as was committed by A .. »411iAJ andSapphirawould feeme [mall, it Ji?ay hl") [0 you in it felfe alone, but fc:e it cloa:heawilh that . jJdgement that befell them dying at the Apofl:Ies feet; fo fee the_finne 9f l.Ahabs oppreffing 'l{a-– hath, which you may{ooke at but as doing a·little wrong to a poore man, bya great man; bUF fee it doathed with Ah4bs death, and the ·dogs·licking his bloud, and-it will apprare to be moft hainous; ·fo the prophanendfe of Na4.W and Abihu, offering Jlrange _fire. Learnt , . ~·
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