The glorieofthego ell. By righteonfnefe theThrone is efiallithecil butfinne is a reprocbunto anypeople. One /o/cpb in Egypt is a (lore- houfe to all the kingdomc ; one Efifhis an armie ofcha- riots andofhorkmen unto Ifrael ; one tillejes a fence to keepe out an inundation of wrath which was brea- king in upon the people one Paul an haven, an an- chor, a deliverance to all thatwere in the (hipwith him. And now Si fielhecadunt venti fequentur : If the flarres fall we mull needes looke for tempefis to enfue,ifthe fait be infatuatedwe cannot looke that any thing fhould be longprefcrved. IfChriflians live as if theyhadno Go- fpell, or as if they had another Gorpell, what can wee expe5t but that God fhould either plague us, or for- fake us, either fend his judgements, or curfe his blef- fings ? Lafily,the Goepell makes finne more filthy, if it doe not purge it; as a taper in the hand ofa Gholl makes him feetne more gay than he was before. Sweet oint- ment caufeth ranke and thongbodies to eatenworfe than they did before. So the fweet favour of the Gofpell maketh the finnes ofmen more noifome and odious in the nofirils of the Almightie. And therefore wee fee what a fearefull doome the Apofilepronounceth againft thole, whohaving tailedof the good Spirit ofGod, and been illightened,and in fome fort affeaedwith his grace doe yet afterwards fall away,even an impoffibilitieofre- pentance or renovation. From which place, perverfly wrefied, though the Novatians of old didgather a de- eper= and uncomfortable conclufion, that finne coat- mitted after regeneration was abfolutely unpardonable (to avoide the danger of which damnable anddamning doarinefomehave boldly quellioned both theAuthor' andauthenticalneffeof that Epifile) yet, all thefe infe- rences being denied, wee learnt from thence this plaine oblervation,That precedent Illuminacionfrom the Go- ern of Chrifi, doth tend much to the aggravation of thole 7;27 VERSE 2. Prova6. 2028. 15.51 Arift.Prob.fea. 16.qm:1. &biros redo- lent,fcednisolent cum fe unguen- taverint. Prob. Hebao.2.6. vid.Sixt.se. 6iekb.Can, loc. Theolog,42,.c.to. RGer;.gii.brahoz.locr;7d.e
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