150 VERSE 2. b 7ectlirtutem ata culum vacavit. Tac.is .Horsiciducm cum admittrot crimes ell,zurtateveca- turcuss publice geritur. cypr.l. 2 epill.z. c 1 Cor.649. Efay 41.21. Efay28.17- COr Levita6.36. ThePower ofthegopli. smenswes.rewartmewles b common:tele had taken away the illnefe,& that which committed by one would have beena fin,being imitated after a multitude were but a fafhion. To conclude this particular : The Apoflle is peremptory, c Neitherforni- cators, nor idolaters, nor effeminate, nor covetow, nor theeves, nor dramk,ards, nor, reviler; nor extortioners, findinherit thekingdomof God : and confciences of many men, who yet will never yeeld to the conclufion, cannot choofebut fubfume s as the Apofile goeson,fad, areformofwe, nay, and fuchwe will be too. But now if we ( houldbefpeake thefe men in the wordofthe Pro- phet, Prodnceyonr eatele,faith the Lord, bringforthyoser grongreafons, faeth the KingofJacob, they fhould finde at the ha their rcafons tobe like themfelves, vanity and lighter than nothing, that the Word oftheLord will at, lafi prevaile, and fweepe away all their refugeoflyes. Secondly, the power of the Word towards wicked men is feene is Affrightingofthem there is a fpirit of bondage, and a favour of death, dwell as a fpirit oflife and libertie which goeth along with the Word. Guilt is an infeparable confequent of finne, and feare of the manifefiationofguilt: If the heart be once convincedof this, it will prefently faint and tremble, even at the fha- kingof a leafe, at the waggingof a mans owne confci- ence ; howmuch more at the voiceof the Lord, which fhaketh rnountaines, andmaketh thefirong foundations of the earth to tremble ? If I fhould fee a prifoner at the barre paffe fentence upon his Judge ; the Judge thereuponCurried with trembling, an forced to fhb- fcribe and acknowledge thedoome,I could not but (land amaz'd at fo inverted a proceeding ; yet in the Scripture wee finde prefidents for it, tfrticaiah, a prifoner, pro- nouncing death unto Ahab, a King : ieremie,a prifoner, pronouncing captivitie untoZedekiiah, a King : Paul in his chain preachingofjudgment unto Felix in his robes, and making his owne Judge to tremble. It is not for want
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